J.R.R. Tolkien
Né(e): January 03, 1892 – Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa
J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer, philologist, and Oxford professor whose work centered on mythology, language, and epic fantasy. He is best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, foundational works of modern fantasy; The Lord of the Rings alone has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide.
Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur
J.R.R. Tolkien was born in 1892 in Bloemfontein, in what was then the Orange Free State, and was taken to England as a small child after his father’s death. His mother’s later death left him and his brother under guardianship, an early experience of loss that shaped the emotional undertones of his fiction. He was educated at King Edward’s School in Birmingham and later at Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied classics before turning to English language and literature. From early on, he showed an unusual fascination with words, sound, and the deep histories of language. That scholarly interest became central to both his academic life and his imaginative work.
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"English writer and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien contributed to English literature two of its most richly inventive fantasy epics"
— Britannica
"Tolkien appears in the fantasy universe in the same way that Mount Fuji appeared in old Japanese prints"
— Terry Pratchett
"For the sf/fantasy writers who followed Tolkien, this assertion of autonomous livability was of very great importance"
— Science Fiction Encyclopedia
"For Tolkien's fantasy does not obscure, but illuminates the inner consistency of reality"
— The New Republic
"J.R.R. Tolkien is the grandfather of modern fantasy"
— Joe Hill
"Tolkien was the twentieth-century's single most important author of fantasy"
— The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
"But Tolkien was, in the truest sense of the word, an enchanter"
— The Washington Post
"I worship Tolkien, he's the father of all modern fantasy"
— George R.R. Martin
"I do not think any modern writer of epic fantasy has managed to escape the mark of Tolkien"
— Tom Shippey
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