J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (/ˈtɒlkiːn/ tol-keen; 3 de Enero de 1892 – 2 de Septiembre de 1973), lo que es en English escritor, poeta, philologist, and universidad profesor, 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 Profesor de Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, universidad de 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 - they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien lo appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, on 28 de Marzo de 1972. After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensiva notes and inédito manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. Tesis, together with The Hobbit y The Lord of the Rings forma a connected cuerpo de cuentos, poemas, fictional histories, invented languages and literary essays about a fantasy world llama Arda, and Middle-earth dentro de ti. Entre 1951 and 1955, Tolkien, applied the term legendarium to the larger part of the writings. While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit y The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the género. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasía literature - or more precisely, de alta fantasía. En 2008, The Times clasificado him on sixth a list of The 50 greatest British escritores since 1945". Forbes clasificado him the 5th top-earning "dead celebrity" en 2009.