J. R. R. Tolkien Summary

Tolkien, J. R. R. (1892-1973) Born in South Africa in 1892 to English parents and resident of the United Kingdom from 1895 until his death in 1973, J. R. R. Tolkien is the most prominent fantasy write... Read more

Biography EssayThe driving passion of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's literary life was to make his "fairystories" so complete in description and detail, so varied in character and action, so expansive in... Read more

J. R. R. Tolkien was best known to most readers as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. These books are regarded, stated Augustus M. Kolich in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as "... Read more

J. R. R. Tolkien's most familiar creation, the hobbits of Middle-earth, belonged only to his private world until September 1937. Before then they were known only to his children, his great friend C. S... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Wood Tolkien is a Catholic and an Anglo-Saxon scholar, and the theology of his work is an extraordinary synthesis of heroic northern myth and Christian promise. Tolkien beli... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Purtill One criticism made of Tolkien is that his language is general, unspecific, not evocative of particular images unlike that of D. H. Lawrence, for example. But Tolkien... Read more

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien began life on the 3rd of January, 1892, in Bloemfontain, South Africa. He spent most of his childhood years in the countryside of England, his love for this pastoral landsca... Read more