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9 mag 2024 · J.R.R. Tolkien (born January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa—died September 2, 1973, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England) was an English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children’s book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
14 mag 2024 · For those who’ve yet to read J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth saga (and its companion books), we’ve put together this guide on how to read them in order, chronologically or by release date.
2 giorni fa · tl;dr: Tolkienists is on a sabbatical. Please come back this September! I have, as it turns out, over-committed. Tolkienists, together with the Tolkien Art Index, LR Citations, and TolkienMoot, is very important to me, and it is not going away. However, I am having to put work on them on hold for a little while.
3 giorni fa · The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction.
1 giorno fa · Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien's son and a professional academic editor, originally chose not to include the prophecy detailing the Dagor Dagorath from his father's 1937 manuscript of the Quenta Silmarillion, a collection of legends that stood unfinished at the time of J.R.R. Tolkien's death.
3 giorni fa · One thing that's important to note about The Silmarillion is that it's not technically written by J.R.R. Tolkien, but most of the material is from him. After his death, his son, Christopher Tolkien, compiled many of his notes and turned them into a book.
14 mag 2024 · Unfinished Tales is a collection of over a dozen stories and Middle-earth histories edited and published by Christopher Tolkien. The book is separated into four parts and includes stories about the origins of Middle-earth’s five wizards, the alliance between Gondor and Rohan, why Gandalf orchestrated the events of The Hobbit, and ...
