Author

Books by J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was an English author, poet, and Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature. He is best known for The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (1954–55), which established the template for modern high fantasy. Tolkien spent most of his adult life building the mythology of Middle-earth; The Silmarillion, edited by his son Christopher, was published posthumously in 1977. He was a founding member of the Inklings literary group alongside C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams.