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| Name: |
J. R. R. Tolkien | | Birth Date: |
January 3, 1892 | | Death Date: |
September 2, 1973 | | Place of Birth: |
Bloemfontein, South Africa | | Place of Death: |
Bournemouth, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, essayist, poet, editor |
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 Biography of J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
9,822 words, approx. 33 pages
 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. Lewis, and a few other people. The print run of... summary from source:
Biography of J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
6,268 words, approx. 21 pages
The place in fantasy literature earned by J. R. R. Tolkien is indisputable. Tolkien is directly responsible for the rising popularity of fantasy literature in the late twentieth century. While authors such as Anne McCaffrey may dominate the scene of... summary from source:
 Biography of J. R. R. Tolkien
5,343 words, approx. 18 pages
The 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 philosophy and religion, as to be "real." He was in every way the...
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 J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
4,888 words, approx. 16 pages
 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ( 1892-01-03 – 1973-09-02 ) was an English author and philologist . See also: The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings , and The Silmarillion Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 On Fairy-Stories (1939) 1.2 Leaf by Niggle (1945) 1.3 English and...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Tolkien, J. R. R. (1892-1973) Summary
1,417 words, approx. 5 pagesBorn 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 writer of the twentieth century. He is beloved for his epic fantasy trilogy, The Lord... summary from source:
 Tolkien, J. R. R. Summary
1,348 words, approx. 5 pagesBorn in Bloemfontein, South Africa on January 3, fantasist, philologist, and critic John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) served in France during World War I and saw action at the Battle of the Somme. He completed his undergraduate studies at... summary from source:
 Tolkien, J.R.R.
913 words, approx. 3 pages(born January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa—died September 2, 1973, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England) English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children's book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of... summary from source:
 J. R. R. Tolkien Information
12,796 words, approx. 43 pages
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (IPA: /ˈtoʊl.kiːn/[1]) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He was an Oxford professor of...
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 Monarch Notes Works of J. R. R. Tolkien: Life And Works Of Tolkien
01/01/1963: 5,497 words, approx. 18 pages Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Life And Works Of Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien's massive literary labor of producing The Lord of the Rings evidences his dogged persistence in creating a twentieth-century masterpiece despite his demanding responsibilities as a tutor at Oxford. Elves, dwarves, hobbits, and... summary from source:
The Horn Book Magazine There and back again: Tolkien reconsidered.(author J. R. R. Tolkien)
03/01/2002: 3,281 words, approx. 11 pages I first set eyes on J. R. R. Tolkien when I was eighteen years old, a first-year undergraduate at the University of Oxford, sitting in a cavernous lecture hall with pen poised hungrily over notebook. For those first few seconds, however, nobody took... summary from source:
 AP News J.R.R. Tolkien tale, completed by son
4/17/2007: 688 words, approx. 2 pages"The Children of Hurin" (Houghton Mifflin, 313 pages, $26, or $75 for a deluxe slipcased edition) _ J.R.R. Tolkien: Six thousand years before the Fellowship of the Ring, long before anyone had even seen a Hobbit, the elves and men of Middle-earth quaked at the... summary from source:
AP News Sales soar for new Tolkien novel
5/1/2007: 261 words, approx. 1 pagesThe world still has a taste for tales about Middle-earth.Two weeks after the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Children of Hurin," an unfinished novel edited by the late author's son, Christopher, more than 900,000 copies are in print worldwide, nearly double the original total, according...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Michael Wood
1,332 words, approx. 4 pages
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 believes in Providence, both in and out of his fiction. He never mentions chance without a pious parenthesis—"if such it be"—yet he also believes, as he suggests the author of Beowulf believed, that within Time the monsters win. "We have fought the long defeat," Tolkien's Elf-Queen says, and the el... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Richard Purtill
944 words, approx. 3 pages
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 writes in this way on theory and of set purpose. As some scattered remarks make clear, Tolkien distrusts overspecific description in fantasy for the same reason he is wary of pictures in such books: both have the effect of dragooning the imagination, forcing us to see the scene in a certain way. (pp. 40-1) [Another] accusation is that the langu... summary from source:
Critical Essay by C. Stuart Hannabuss
561 words, approx. 2 pages
I believe that Tolkien was working out a quasi-Christian morality in pagan terms, using a former culture and literary tradition to furnish the scenario to a quest which incorporated the major issues of Life. His landscape is one of utter contrasts, images of good and evil…. The denizens of Tolkien's world fall into two camps, broadly good and bad; and, with a simplicity due to this moral viewpoint, as well as due to the simple characterization in epic, so we find Gandalf ranged against Sauron,... Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%A Brief Biography about J. R. R. Tolkien
406 words, approx. 1 pages
A brief biography of J. R. R. Tolkien, author of such celebrated works as "The Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings," and "The Silmarillion."
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