J.R.R. Tolkien
Middle-earth's literary father
J.R.R.
Tolkien was a British author and Oxford professor whose fantasy novels—especially *The Hobbit* and *The Lord of the Rings*—created the template for modern fantasy literature.
His invented languages, detailed mythology, and Middle-earth setting influenced generations of writers, filmmakers, and game designers.
I'm rereading Tolkien this summer.
- The HobbitFantasy novel about halflings
- One RingArtifact binding all others
- Mount DoomRing's final resting
- Bag EndHobbit's hillside burrow
- Middle-earthFantasy world with hobbits
Oxford University · The Lord of the Rings · Valinor · Finnish · Mordor · Old English · runes · The Silmarillion · epic fantasy · high fantasy · etymology · Beowulf · Rivendell · C.S. Lewis · fairy stories · Welsh · Gondor · Rohan
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Authors JJane Austen, John Steinbeck, James Patterson, John Grisham, Jack London
- Genre AuthorsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy AuthorsIsaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury
- Conlangers
- Literary AuthorsC.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Henry James
J.R.R. TolkienPhilip Pullman
Samuel Beckett · Albert Camus · Friedrich Nietzsche · Franz Kafka · Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy · Samuel Beckett · hardboiled fiction · James Joyce · William Faulkner