Tolkien created a Legendarium, a fictional mythology about the remote past of Earth, here called Arda, of which Middle-earth in particular is the main stage. His mother converted to Roman Catholicism in 1900, despite vehement protests by her Baptist family. [3] Derdzinski also suggests another etymology of the Tolkien family name, deriving it from Baltic Tolk-Ä«n, "a descendant of Tolk", tolk being a Baltic term for "translator, interpreter". [6] The Entwives passed the Anduin and went to the region that would later become the Brown Lands. The John P. Raynor, S.J., Library at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, preserves many of Tolkien's original manuscripts, notes and letters; other original material survives at Oxford's Bodleian Library. Though a direct sequel to The Hobbit, it addressed an older audience, drawing on the immense back story of Beleriand that Tolkien had constructed in previous years, and which eventually saw posthumous publication in The Silmarillion and other volumes. Tolkien Way in Stoke-On-Trent is named after J.R.R. Marquette has the manuscripts and proofs of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and other manuscripts, including Farmer Giles of Ham, while the Bodleian holds the Silmarillion papers and Tolkien's academic work. But Tolkien was not fond of all the artistic representation of his works that were produced in his lifetime, and was sometimes harshly disapproving. Tolkien never expected his fictional stories to become popular, but he was persuaded by a former student to publish a book he had written for his own children called The Hobbit in 1937. [18] The Quenya name of the Ents is possibly Onyalie with the individual being *Onya. [7] An Ent-host showed up near Dolmed and helped Beren against the Dwarves of Nogrod who sacked Doriath and slew King Thingol; the Dwarves were driven to the shadow woods of Ered Lindon and no-one managed to exit. Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (now the Free State province of South Africa) to Arthur Reuel Tolkien (1857 â 1896), an English bank manager, and his wife Mabel, née Suffield (1870 â 1904). In 1980 Christopher Tolkien followed this with a collection of more fragmentary material under the title Unfinished Tales, and in subsequent years he published a massive amount of background material on the creation of Middle-earth in the twelve volumes of The History of Middle-earth. They continued across the Grimsel Pass and through the upper Valais to Brig, and on to the Aletsch glacier and Zermatt. However, the book attracted adult readers as well, and it became popular enough for the publisher, George Allen & Unwin, to ask Tolkien to work on a sequel. They gave them the desire to speak and taught them Elvish. Characters in The Lord of the Rings, such as Frodo, Treebeard and Elrond make noticeably Boethian remarks. The stories told in each letter are charming in their own right, but they’re not the main attraction (though they do provide some amusement). Tolkien. She sent them to Tolkien, who was struck by the similarity to the style of his own drawings. They flooded Nan Curunír and transformed it into a forested area which they called Treegarth of Orthanc. Language and grammar for Tolkien was a matter of aesthetics and euphony, and Quenya in particular was designed from "phonæsthetic" considerations. Clyde S. Kilby, who spent some time with Tolkien in the summer of 1966, noted that he "was always neatly dressed from necktie to shoes. Tolkien Centenary Conference, Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference, Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012, Travel and Communication in Tolkien's Worlds, Poetry and Song in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 163, (dated 7 June 1955) ↑ Longbough at Lotro-wiki.com (accessed 23 September 2011) ↑ Monster: Bog-lurker at Lorebook.Lotro.com (accessed 23 September 2011) This page has been accessed 555,711 times. Some grew 'treeish' and ceased moving or speaking. He worked as reader and professor in English language at the University of Leeds from 1920 to 1925; as professor of Anglo-Saxon language at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1945; and of English language and literature from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. This first adaptation, however, only contained the first half of the story that is The Lord of the Rings. [6], The Sindarin name for Ents, as a race, is Onodrim, and as individuals Onod (pl. [4] They were created around the same time as the Elves. [24] Whilst in a letter to W.H. For the rest of his life, Tolkien felt that she had become a martyr for her faith; this had a profound effect on his own Catholic beliefs. [4] Tolkien himself had always been dismissive of this connection.[5]. The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth series (published by his son, Christopher Tolkien, posthumously) revealed Tolkien's lifelong work on that same Legendarium, a process which he called "sub-creation".