- Literary collections, Middle Earth (Imaginary place), English Fantasy literature, English Fantasy fiction
At the end of the 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien reluctantly set aside his now greatly elaborated work on the myths and heroic legends of Valinor and Middle-earth and began The Lord of the Rings.
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Richly built, epic, grave and contemplative.
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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About the book
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 460
- Publisher
- Unwin Hyman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780358616320
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. 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. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the
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