Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolkien, J. R. R. , John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ( 1892 – 1973 ),Merton professor of English language and literature at Oxford, 1945 – 59 . He published a number of philological and critical studies, such as ‘Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics’ (in Proceedings of the British Academy, 1936 ), and became internationally known for two books based on a mythology of his own: The Hobbit ( 1937 ) and its sequel The Lord of the Rings (3 vols, 1954 – 5 ). The Silmarillion ( 1977 ), which has an earlier place in this sequence of stories, was published posthumously. A life by Humphrey Carpenter was published in 1977 . See also fantasy fiction .
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