Tolkien the Perfectionist
Tolkien died before finishing the Silmarillion, the great history of his imaginary universe. The work was under constant revision (and expansion) through most of his life. His son, Christopher Tolkien, was able to complete it and publish a set of 'histories' of Middle Earth using his father's notes and unfinished manuscripts. These now contain eleven volumes of material from J.R.R. Tolkien's notes on the languages, legends, and people of his fictitious universe.Tolkien's Scholarly Work
In addition to being one of the pre-eminent fantasy writers of our century, Tolkien was a scholar of the Anglo-Saxon and Norse languages. He was a translator, critic, and philologist (classical linguist.) He worked as a translator of the Jerusalem Bible and wrote definitions and researched word origins for the Oxford English Dictionary. His works of translation and criticism include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf and the Critics.For more information about such academic endeavours, please
see:
The Electronic Beowulf
A Tolkien Bibliography,
including scholarly works and criticism.
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR | ABOUT HIS WORK | ADAPTATIONS |
| BIOGRAPHY | "THE HOBBIT", What´s a hobbit? | FILMS |
| TIMELINE | "THE HOBBIT",SUMMARY, THEMES, PLOT. | ROLE PLAYS |
| "THE LORD OF THE RINGS", Did the events take place in another planet? | COMPUTER GAMES | |
| DIFFERENT OPINIONS OF HIS LITERATURE | ||
| TEXTS | ||
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