Eddison preceded Tolkien, the great success and enduring influence of his works have led to him being popularly, if perhaps inaccurately, identified as the " In any case, Tolkien's work has had an indisputable and lasting effect on the field and related media many fantasy settings like Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer Fantasy owe much of their mythology, directly or indirectly, to him. While fantasy authors such as William Morris, Robert E. Most of the posthumously published books were compiled from Tolkien's notes by his son Christopher Tolkien. Tolkien applied the word legendarium to the totality of these writings. In addition to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's published fiction includes The Silmarillion and other posthumously published books, which taken together is a connected body of tales, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about an imagined world called Arda, and Middle-earth (derived from the Old English word middangeard, the lands inhabitable by humans) in particular, loosely identified as an "alternative" remote past of our own world. Lewis they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (1925 to 1945) and English language and literature (1945 to 1959). John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor who is best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as many other works. Source: J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography, by Humphrey Carpenter. Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street, Oxford.
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