1948 Закончил работу над романом Властелин колец - почти десятилетие спустя после первого наброска.

1952 Выход "Сильмариллиона".

Poems in English and Elvish from The Lord of the Rings and the Adventures of Tom Bombadil read by the man himself, .

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (/ruːl ˈtɒlkiːn/; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (called Ronald for short; b. January 3, 1892 in South Africa – died September 2, 1973 in England) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. He was a strongly committed Roman Catholic. Tolkien was a close friend of .

R. R. Tolkien bibliography. This is a list of the writings of the English writer and philologist J. Tolkien. 1937 The Hobbit or There and Back Again, ISBN 0-618-00221-9 (HM). 1949 Farmer Giles of Ham (mediaeval fable).

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Written at a time when Tolkien was deeply fascinated with Celtic myth and legend, this poem tells the story of a Breton lord and lady who, childless and desperate for an heir, seek a potion from a corrigan, or malevolent fairy Like The Fall of Arthur or The Story of Kullervo, this mythic retelling had a formative influenc. e on Tolkien's own world-building.

Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4, Waterstone’s, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK’s leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century. Please note also that his name is spelt Tolkien (there is no Tolkein ). Popular J. Tolkien songs. Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold (Full Version).

Tolkien was best known for his fantasy creations of Middle-Earth – writing The Hobbit, and the epic trilogy ‘The Lord of the Rings’. The Lord of the Rings made him one of the best selling authors of the Twentieth Century, spawning a new genre of fantasy. Tolkien was born in 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa. After three years in South Africa, he returned to England with his Mother Mabel; unfortunately, his father died one year later, leaving him with little memory of his father

several album inspired by Silmarillion stories in early 2000s19 The Irish Celtic metal band Cruachan released a song called the "Fall of Gondolin" on their album Pagan. Sally Oldfield's first solo album, Water Bearer 1978 was inspired by Tolkien's works, particularly "Songs of the Quendi". The Hobbitons was the name of a Dutch folk group who released a CD in 1996, containing 16 tracks of poems by J R R Tolkien, from The Hobbit, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and The Lord of the Rings Production was with permission of the Tolkien Estate, with the provision that it would not be sold commercially The CD is sold.