Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel

Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.), p.n.("toll key en") famed British author and linguist, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford; b. 1892, d. 1973; best known for The Lord of the Rings, published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955. See Christopher Tolkien. [GJ1]
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Addendum: Tolkien's fantasy literature was inspired by his private attempts create a lost pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon mythology (little is known about the beliefs and legends of the pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons, except that they were closely related culturally to their Norse ancestors). Tolkien's deep knowledge of his source material (Norse and Anglo-Saxon literature, the Icelandic Sagas, Teutonic poetry, Indo-European myth and linguistics), combined with his natural talents as a storyteller, combined to create an entire genre (modern Fantasy Literature), as well as a body of work that is unsurpassed by any later fantasy writer. [GJ1]
Addendum #2: The last name "Tolkien" is pronounced with three syllables -- Tol•ki•en, not Tol•kien. I suppose that if Tolkien had spelled his name using his own phonetics system, it would have been "Tolciën." [GJ1]