Tolkien Calendar 2013: The Hobbit
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specializing 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 famouslyThe Hobbit(1937) andThe 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.