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Ibata, David (12 January 2003). " 'Lord' of racism? Critics view trilogy as discriminatory". The Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 3 March 2021. John R. Holmes, in the J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, states that given the struggle faced by literary critics to establish Tolkien's position as a writer, in the face of an enduringly hostile literary establishment, "the problem of evaluating Tolkien's status as a visual artist is even more daunting". [1] The Tolkien scholar Patchen Mortimer similarly comments on the "contentious debate" about him, noting that his many readers find his books and "the attendant languages, histories, maps, artwork, and apocrypha" [12] a huge accomplishment, while his critics "dismiss his work as childish, irrelevant, and worse". [12] Mortimer observes that admirers and critics treat his work as "escapist and romantic", [12] nothing to do with the 20th century. Mortimer calls this "an appalling oversight", writing that "Tolkien's project was as grand and avant-garde as those of Wagner or the Futurists, and his works are as suffused with the spirit of the age as any by Eliot, Joyce, or Hemingway". [12] a retelling of a 19th-century Finnish poem that Tolkien wrote in 1915 while studying at Oxford. [148]

Huttar, Charles A. (1975). "Hell and the City: Tolkien and the Traditions of Western Literature". In Lobdell, Jared (ed.). A Tolkien Compass. Open Court. pp.121–122. ISBN 978-0875483030. Magoun, John F. G. (2006). "South, The". In Drout, Michael D. C. (ed.). J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp.622–623. ISBN 1-135-88034-4. In 1980, Christopher Tolkien published a collection of more fragmentary material, under the title Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth. In subsequent years (1983–1996), he published a large amount of the remaining unpublished materials, together with notes and extensive commentary, in a series of twelve volumes called The History of Middle-earth. They contain unfinished, abandoned, alternative, and outright contradictory accounts, since they were always a work in progress for Tolkien and he only rarely settled on a definitive version for any of the stories. There is not complete consistency between The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, the two most closely related works, because Tolkien never fully integrated all their traditions into each other. He commented in 1965, while editing The Hobbit for a third edition, that he would have preferred to rewrite the book completely because of the style of its prose. [142] Works compiled by Christopher Tolkien DateThe Trustees of the Society strongly felt it was important for the photos to remain accessible in the Tolkien community and form a part of the Society’s archive. Chair of the Tolkien Society, Shaun Gunner, said:

According to Ryszard Derdziński, the surname Tolkien is of Low Prussian origin and probably means "son/descendant of Tolk". [5] [4] Tolkien mistakenly believed his surname derived from the German word tollkühn, meaning "foolhardy", [7] and jokingly inserted himself as a "cameo" into The Notion Club Papers under the literally translated name Rashbold. [8] However, Derdziński has demonstrated this to be a false etymology. While J. R. R. Tolkien was aware of his family's German origin, his knowledge of the family's history was limited because he was "early isolated from the family of his prematurely deceased father". [5] [4] Childhood 1892 Christmas card with a coloured photo of the Tolkien family in Bloemfontein, sent to relatives in Birmingham, England a b "Memorials". The Tolkien Society. 29 October 2016. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 3 March 2021. Shropshire County Council (2002). "J. R. R. Tolkien". Literary Heritage, West Midlands. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012.The Nature of Middle-earth. Ed. Carl Hostetter. HarperCollins, London, 2021. J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects about the world and its peoples, and although there is a structure to the collected pieces the book is one to dip in and out of.

A Middle English Vocabulary · Sir Gawain and the Green Knight · Ancrene Wisse · The Old English Exodus The image was accompanied by a calligraphic caption in English, made to resemble "both the insular characters of Old English manuscript and the very Feänorian characters [that] it translates". [1] The Silmarillion [ edit ] Handwerk, Brian (1 March 2004). "Lord of the Rings Inspired by an Ancient Epic". National Geographic News. Archived from the original on 16 March 2006. The Treason of Isengard. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. The History of Middle-earth: Vol. 7. Unwin Hyman, London, 1989. Tolkien appointed his son Christopher to be his literary executor, and he (with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay, later a well-known fantasy author in his own right) organized some of this material into a single coherent volume, published as The Silmarillion in 1977. It received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy novel in 1978. [141] Unfinished Tales and The History of Middle-earthSee The Name Nodens (1932) in the bibliographical listing. For the etymology, see Nodens#Etymology. Brennan, David (21 September 2018). "The Hobbit: How Tolkien Sunk a German Anti-Semitic Inquiry Into His Race". Newsweek . Retrieved 9 July 2023. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject – which should be sufficient. Tolkien could read by the age of four and could write fluently soon afterwards. His mother allowed him to read many books. He disliked Treasure Island and " The Pied Piper" and thought Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was "amusing but disturbing". He liked stories about "Red Indians" (the term then used for Native Americans in adventure stories [17]) and works of fantasy by George MacDonald. [18] In addition, the "Fairy Books" of Andrew Lang were particularly important to him and their influence is apparent in some of his later writings. [19] King Edward's School in Birmingham, where Tolkien was a pupil (1900–1902, 1903–1911) [20] The Return of the Shadow. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. The History of Middle-earth: Vol. 6. Unwin Hyman, London, 1988. Absolute Verteilung des Namens 'Tolkien' ". verwandt.de (in German). MyHeritage UK. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013 . Retrieved 9 January 2012.