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when Tolkien began writing poems and story sketches, drawing maps, and inventing languages and names as a private project to create a mythology for England...

influenced J. R. R. Tolkien's later writings. T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922) was a deliberate attempt to model a 20th-century mythology patterned after...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (/ˈruːl ˈtɒlkiːn/, ROOL TOL-keen; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was...

Elizabeth Solopova state that Crist I was "the catalyst for Tolkien's mythology". Tolkien was an expert on Old English literature, especially the epic...

the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. It was edited, partly written, and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, assisted by Guy Gavriel...

hailed him as "brightest of angels"; this was the beginning of Tolkien's Middle-earth mythology. Elwing is the granddaughter of Lúthien and Beren, and is descended...

J. R. R. Tolkien derived the characters, stories, places, and languages of Middle-earth from many sources. Among these are the Celtic legends and languages...

Tolkien has often been supposed to have spoken of wishing to create "a mythology for England". It seems he never used the actual phrase, but various commentators...

Gergely Nagy and Vincent Ferré have commented that Tolkien had always wanted to create a mythology, but believed that such a thing should have passed...

R. R. Tolkien made it clear in a letter that his Elves differed from those "of the better known lore" of Scandinavian mythology. The Tolkien scholar...

Tolkien's Fiction. New York City: North Landing Books. ISBN 978-0-9816607-1-4. Whittingham, Elizabeth A. (2008). The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology:...

with a complex history and mythology of the Elves that was at the core of the development of Tolkien's legendarium. Tolkien wrote in one of his letters:...

names of people and places, and eventually a complete mythology. From his schooldays, J. R. R. Tolkien was in his biographer John Garth's words "effusive...

close to worship. The Tolkien scholar Marjorie Burns notes that Tolkien wrote that to be acceptable to modern readers, mythology had to be brought up to...

Tolkien include both the Finnish language, which he especially liked, and the Kalevala, Elias Lönnrot's 19th century compilation of Finnish mythology...

Tolkien's Legendarium. Tolkien envisaged Ælfwine as an Anglo-Saxon who visited and befriended the Elves and acted as the source of later mythology. Thus...

Tolkien derived the characters, stories, places, and languages of Middle-earth from many sources. Among these are Norse mythology, seen in his Dwarves...

Inventing language was always a crucial piece to Tolkien's mythology and world building. As Tolkien stated: The invention of languages is the foundation...

the Mythology". Three other parts are the Ambarkanta or "Shape of the World", a collection of maps and diagrams of the world described by Tolkien; and...

J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings have been said to embody outmoded attitudes to race. However, scholars have noted that he was influenced...