JRR Tolkien

1892–1973

English author and Oxford philologist whose invented world of Middle-earth, in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, drew on his scholarly love of language and myth to create the template for modern fantasy fiction.

Timeline of JRR Tolkien’s life

Works

• The Hobbit (1937)
• Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
• The Lord of the Rings (1954)
• The Silmarillion (1977)