J. R. R. Tolkien
Birthday
1892/01/03
Day of death
1973/02/09 (81 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa
Also know as
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, JRR Tolkien, J·R·R·托尔金, 约翰·罗纳德·瑞尔·托尔金, Джон Рональд Руэл Толкин, J.R.R. Tolkien
Biography
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, 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 ...Read more
Acting
(2002) J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of the Rings - The Definitive Guide to the World of the Rings
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(1992) J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973
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(1968) Tolkien in Oxford
as Himself
(2003) Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Hobbit
as Self (archive footage)
(2003) Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
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(2003) Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Two Towers
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(2003) Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Return of the King
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(2024) Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings
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(2022) Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien
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