J. R. R. Tolkien | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:01:58 1 Biography
00:02:07 1.1 Family origins
00:04:18 1.2 Childhood
00:09:37 1.3 Youth
00:12:15 1.4 Courtship and marriage
00:16:37 1.5 First World War
00:18:07 1.5.1 France
00:19:57 1.5.2 Battle of the Somme
00:23:07 1.5.3 Home front
00:25:10 1.6 Academic and writing career
00:26:55 1.6.1 iBeowulf/i
00:29:29 1.6.2 Second World War
00:31:05 1.7 Family
00:32:08 1.8 Retirement and later years
00:34:30 1.9 Final years
00:36:49 2 Views
00:40:03 2.1 Religion
00:41:22 2.2 Politics and race
00:41:32 2.2.1 Anti-communism
00:42:25 2.2.2 Opposition to National Socialism
00:45:05 2.2.3 Total war
00:47:19 2.3 Nature
00:48:01 3 Writing
00:48:32 3.1 Influences
00:48:41 3.1.1 British adventure stories
00:50:26 3.1.2 European mythology
00:55:57 3.1.3 Catholicism
00:58:39 3.2 Publications
00:58:48 3.2.1 "iBeowulf/i: The Monsters and the Critics"
01:00:01 3.2.2 "On Fairy-Stories"
01:00:54 3.2.3 Children's books and other short works
01:01:39 3.2.4 iThe Hobbit/i
01:02:10 3.2.5 iThe Lord of the Rings/i
01:04:37 3.3 Posthumous publications
01:04:47 3.3.1 iThe Silmarillion/i
01:05:59 3.3.2 iUnfinished Tales/i and iThe History of Middle-earth/i
01:07:07 3.3.3 iMr. Bliss/i
01:08:20 3.3.4 iThe Children of Húrin/i
01:08:54 3.3.5 iThe Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún/i
01:10:27 3.3.6 iThe Fall of Arthur/i
01:11:21 3.3.7 iBeowulf: A Translation and Commentary/i
01:12:21 3.3.8 iThe Story of Kullervo/i
01:12:46 3.3.9 iBeren and Lúthien/i
01:13:17 3.3.10 iThe Fall of Gondolin/i
01:13:45 3.4 Manuscript locations
01:14:46 4 Languages and philology
01:14:57 4.1 Linguistic career
01:16:59 4.2 Language construction
01:19:08 5 Artwork
01:20:15 6 Legacy
01:20:24 6.1 Adaptations
01:22:48 6.1.1 Film adaptations
01:25:54 6.1.2 Television
01:26:36 6.2 Memorials
01:30:45 6.3 Commemorative plaques
01:31:57 6.4 Artwork
01:32:24 6.5 Autographs
01:33:07 6.6 Canonization process
01:34:13 7 See also



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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien  (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, 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 fifth top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009.