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Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Author Biography

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
9822 words, approx. 32.7 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 what...
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Biography of J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
6268 words, approx. 20.9 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 mode...
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Biography of J. R. R. Tolkien
5343 words, approx. 17.8 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 pe...
 


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Unfinished Tales Information
918 words, approx. 3 pages
Unfinished Tales (full title Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth) is a collection of stories and essays by J. R. R. Tolkien that were never completed during his lifetime, but were edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and published in 1980....


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The Village Voice
An Unfinished Season
06/23/2004: 326 words, approx. 1 pages
The jazzed, luminous chronicle of a Chicago son's times AN UNFINISHED SEASON By Ward just Houghton Mifflin, 251 pp. $24 ON THE GRAB Set against the paranoia and corruption of the 1950s, Ward Just's atmospheric 14th novel, An Unfinished Season, is a...
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The Spectator
An Unfinished Life
12/11/2004: 835 words, approx. 3 pages
Happy days in Wyoming AN UNFINISHED LIFE by Mark Spragg Cape, £16.99, pp. 257, ISBN 0224073540 £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 In the wake of a presidential election where both candidates' fervid speechifying took them back and forth across the good-ol'-boy...
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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...
 


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