The Tolkien Reader
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Open LibraryAbout this book
Anthology of Works, published 1966, including poems, short stories, a play, and some non fiction. Compilation of materials previously published as "Tree and Leaf", "Farmer Giles of Ham," and "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", along with one additional piece and intro material.
Themes & subjects
English Fantasy literatureShort storiesFantastic fictionEnglish Fantasy fictionDragonsEnglish Adventure stories
First published 1966Characters & people
Setting
Pacific OceanValinorEnglandThamesWunnle (England)Ancient EnglandLittle Kingdom (fictional place)MaldenMiddle Ages10th centuryThird Age1920s20th century20e siècle
About the author
J.R.R. Tolkien
3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973
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 t…
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