Definitions for tolkien
ˈtoʊl kin, ˈtɒl-tolkien

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1. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkiennoun

   British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973)

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1. Tolkien

   John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ROOL TOL-keen; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He then moved within the same university to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, and held these positions from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis, a co-member of the informal literary discussion group The Inklings. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972. After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda and, within it, Middle-earth. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings. While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused him to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature—or, more precisely, of high fantasy.

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1. tolkien

   J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 -1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of high fantasy works like 'The Hobbit', 'The Lord of the Rings', and 'The Silmarillion'. He served as a professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University from 1945 to 1959. Tolkien is considered as the father of the modern fantasy literature genre and his works have had a lasting impact on both literature and popular culture.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tolkien in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tolkien in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of tolkien in a Sentence

1. Michael Coren:

   Tolkien certainly wrote about good and evil, but he never attributed this to race.

2. Christoph Hartmann:

   We're committed to bringing customers games of the highest quality, both with our own original IP as well as beloved cultural pillars like' The Lord of the Rings,' tolkien's Middle-earth is one of the richest fictional worlds in history, and it gives our team of experienced MMO developers -- from the same studio developing' New World' -- tremendous opportunity to play and create.

3. Peter Jackson:

   Benedict Cumberbatch-voiced said,' No, I don't want to meet you' and that's the first and last communication we've ever had with Christopher Tolkien.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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