About the author

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien 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After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion.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 Middle-earth within it. 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 Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature—or, more precisely, of high fantasy. In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Forbes ranked him the fifth top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009.

Hobbitten

eller Ud og hjem igen Med efterord af Rane Willerslev

Med efterord af Rane Willerslev. Hobbitten er Tolkiens udødelige romanklassiker om hobbitten Bilbo Sækker, der meget mod sin vilje bliver udpeget af troldmanden Gandalf til at ledsage tretten dværge på deres generobringstogt af den enorme skat, der nidkært vogtes af dragen Smaug. Og som undervejs tilfældigt render ind i mørkevæsenet Gollum og vinder hans mærkelige ring fra ham i en dyst om ordspil og gåder. Udgives her i Gyldendals Klassikerkollektion. En ny serie med klassikere fra Danmark og hele verden. Serien vil udkommer med små og store kollektioner. Denne kollektion samler sig om rejsen som tema.  I samme kollektion udkommer H.C. Andersens Fodrejse - Fra Holmens kanal til østpynten af Amager i årene 1828 og 1829 og Joseph Conrads Mørkets hjerte.
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Edition11
Printed pages336
Publish date14 Jun 2019
Published byGyldendal
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ISBN print9788702283389