J.R.R Tolkien

He's called J.R.R Tolkien because his real name is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

2 September 1973 (aged 81) Bournemouth, United Kingdom

After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda, and Middle-earth [b] within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings. [2]

He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1945 to 1959. [1] He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis —they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.

While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, [3] the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature [4] [5] —or, more precisely, of high fantasy. [6] In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". [7] Forbes ranked him the 5th top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009. [8]

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