John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets. Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal. Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly. Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past. Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium’ that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children’s stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
Series
Books
The End of the Third Age
The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Four
1992
Le Seigneur des Anneaux, Livre III
Les Deux Tours
1954
The Lord of the Rings
The Two Towers
1961
The Ring Goes East
1954
Tolkien's World
Paintings of Middle-Earth
1992
Bilbo's Last Song
1974
The History of the Hobbit, Part Two
Return to Bag-End
2007
Ringens värld
1954
The Hobbit and Other Stories
2023
Leaf by Niggle
1945
The Book of Jonah
2010
The History of the Hobbit, Part One
Mr. Baggins
2007
The Children of Hurin / The Silmarillion / Unfinished Tales
2009
Poems and Stories
1980
Finn and Hengest
The Fragment and the Episode
1982
Sauron Defeated
The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Four
1992
J.R.R. Tolkien, Der kleine Hobbit. Lektüre
2003
J.R.R. Tolkien Audio CD Collection
1955
The History of Middle Earth Index
2002
The Return of the King
1955
On Fairy-Stories
1947
A Long Expected Party
2011
Morgoth's Ring
1993
NASMITH TED TOLKIEN 1992
1991
A Middle English Vocabulary
1922
The End of the Third Age
1954
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
1945
The Nature of Middle-Earth
2021
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
1981
The Hobbit, Part 2 of 2
1937
The Ring Sets Out
1954
The War of the Jewels
1994
The Tolkien Reader
1966
The Lord of the Rings
1987
The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
1983
The History of the Hobbit
2007
Smith of Wootton Major
1967
Letters from Father Christmas
1976
Tree and Leaf; Smith of Wootton Major; The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
1975
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
1980
The Great Tales Of Middle-Earth
2018
The Hobbit
A Graphic Novel
1989
The Story of Kullervo
2015
The War of the Ring
The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Three
1990
The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
1984
The History of Middle-earth
Part Three
2003
J. R. R. Tolkien
Architect of Middle Earth: A Biography
2002
The Film Book of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings
1978
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
1983
Realms of Tolkien
1996
The Silmarillion, Volume 3
1998
The Silmarillion, Volume 2
1977
A Rare Recording of J.R.R. Tolkien
2011
The Tolkien Treasury
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
2015
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
1962
The Children of Húrin
2007
Roverandom
1998
Farmer Giles of Ham
1949
Güç Yüzüklerine Dair
2000
The History Of Middle-Earth, Part One
1991
The Fall of Arthur
2013
The Lord of the Rings
Omnibus Edition
1954
The Lays of Beleriand
1985
Pearl and Sir Orfeo
1975
The Hobbit
1937
The Ring Goes South
1954
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
1925
Tolkien On Fairy-stories
2008
The Lost Road and Other Writings
1987
Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
1979
The Shaping of Middle-Earth
1986
The War of the Ring
1988
The Peoples of Middle-earth
1996
The Fall of Númenor
and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth
2022
The Silmarillion
1977
Faërie
1974
The Hobbit, Part One
1937
Beren and Lúthien
2017
A Secret Vice
Tolkien on Invented Languages
2016
The War of the Ring
1990
The Battle of Maldon
Together with the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
2023
A Tolkien Miscellany
2002
Die Sagen von Mittelerde
1995
The Fellowship of the Ring
1954
Beowulf and the Critics
1936
The Tolkien Reader
1983
The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide
2001
The Road Goes Ever On
A Song Cycle
1967
J.R.R. Tolkien - Poems
2004
Tree and Leaf
Including the Poem Mythopoeia
1992
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
1953
The Lord of the Rings
de Reisgenoten
2002
The Return of the Shadow
The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One
1988
Contes et Légendes inachevés - Second Âge
1988
Tree and Leaf
1964
Poems from the Hobbit
1999
Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham
1949
Farmer Giles of Ham & Other Stories
1945
The Fall of Gondolin
2018
The Silmarillion Volume 1
1977
Voices of Poetry - Volume 1
2013
Oliphaunt
1989
The Hobbit
Jackanory
2013
Tales from the Perilous Realm
1997
Annals of the Kings and Rulers
1990
Fantasy Tales
1980
J.R.R. Tolkien Reads Poems And Songs Of Middle Earth
1977
Mr. Bliss
1982
A Middle Earth Dictionary
2015
The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún
2009
Poems from The Lord of the Rings
1994
Of the Darkening of Valinor & of the Flight of the Noldor from The Silmarillion
1985
The Two Towers
1954
The Treason of Isengard
The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Two
1989
Tuor und seine Ankunft in Gondolin.
1985
Feanors Fluch
1991
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide
Volume 1: Chronology
2006
The Shaping Of Middle-Earth
The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals, Together With the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map
2021
