Description
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Published: 08/12/1986
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 6.92h x 4.21w x 1.09d
ISBN13: 9780345339706
ISBN10: 0345339703
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | Epic
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Media Tie-In
About the Author
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. After serving in World War I, he embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest philologists in the world. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. He is, however, beloved throughout the world as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic works as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He died on September 2, 1973, at the age of eighty-one.