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The Smallest Person Can Change The Course Of The Future – J.R.R Tolkien
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Even The Smallest Person Can Change The Course Of The Future.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, FRSL (/ˈtɒlkiːn/;[a]
3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist,
and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy
works The
Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The
Silmarillion.
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.
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.
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on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The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
within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these
writings.
While many other authors had published works of
fantasy before Tolkien, 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—or, more precisely, of high fantasy. In 2008, The Times
ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since
1945". Forbes
ranked him the 5th top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009.
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