John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion.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.
