Beren and Lúthien

J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien was born in 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa, but spent his childhood in England, where he also completed his secondary school and university studies. In 1919, he received a diploma in Old English language and literature from Oxford and five years later became a professor in the same field. Tolkien' s first publications were A Middle English Vocabulary, in the 1920s. 1922) and a critical edition of the medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 1925), However, it was not until the fairy tale story from the fictional ancient Middle-earth, The Hobbit, that he achieved success as a reader that he achieved success. 1937, in Czech for the first time in 1979). After fourteen years of work, begun before the publication of The Hobbit, completed in the late 1940s extensive, an incomparably richer sequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy in terms of plot and intellectual complexity as well as linguistic invention 1954–1955, in Czech for the first time 1990–1992), which aroused a huge wave of interest. The fates of Middle-earth and its inhabitants, sketched briefly in The Hobbit and elaborated in The Lord of the Rings, further develops the epic The Silmarillion (The Silmarillion, 1977, Czech 1992), which was prepared for publication by his son Christopher four years after the author' s death. Tolkien' s literary legacy is complemented by a number of scholarly studies and fairy tales.