Carpenter tolkien6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. ![]() He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. ![]() 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 our world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. By David Doughan MBE Who was Tolkien? Photo by Pamela Chandler. ![]()
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