Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters are letters he wrote addressed to his children from Father Christmas.

Further posthumous publications ( with text more closely following Tolkien's original ) include Unfinished Tales, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Bilbo's Last Song, and The Children of Húrin.

A few high fantasy series do not easily fit into Gamble's categories, for example ; J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is set in primary world of Earth in the ancient past, and he adamantly disagreed with anyone who thought otherwise, see The Letters of J. R. R.

Tolkien's Elves are still very much " human ," and although they can be killed by injury or die of grief, and they do age ( besides " emotional ageing ," the males grow beards upon reaching a " third cycle of life ," though these beards never reach the glory of an adolescent dwarf woman ), dead Elves are normally re-embodied after an indefinite period of time — according to Tolkien's Letters and other posthumously published writings.

Tolkien believed he had invented the word " hobbit " when he began writing The Hobbit ( it was revealed years after his death that the word predated Tolkien's usage, though with a different meaning ).

For example, Issue 42 of Mallorn, the journal of The Tolkien Society ( August 2004 ), carried a lengthy article analyzing Tolkien's works as well as his possible Theosophist beliefs, concluding that the Years of the Sun began on March 25, 10160 BC, the Second Age on December 26, 9564 BC, the Third Age on December 24, 6123 BC, and the Fourth Age on March 18, 3102 BC.

The Siege of Angband or " The Long Peace " in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fictional universe was the siege of the Noldor around the fortress of Morgoth in the early centuries of the Years of the Sun, which began following the Dagor Aglareb.

Encouraged by the result, Christopher Tolkien began to embark upon the more ambitious twelve-volume work entitled The History of Middle-earth which encompasses nearly the entire corpus of Tolkien's writings about Middle-earth.

Blackwell ’ s began the careers of many writers: in 1915 J. R. R. Tolkien's first poem, " Goblin's Feet ", was published.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the history of the fictional universe of Eä began when the Ainur entered Arda, following the creation events in the Ainulindalë and long ages of labour throughout Eä, the universe.

) The Years of the Sun began towards the end of the First Age of the Children of Ilúvatar and continued through the Second, Third, and part of the Fourth in Tolkien's stories.

From the 1970s onwards, a number of authors began publishing longer, sometimes formulaic, fantasy works and capitalized on the market that the success of Tolkien's work had shown existed.

During his recuperation, he began a sequel to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

He also produced a three-issue adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit for Eclipse with artist David Wenzel between 1989 and 1990, and began writing Marc Spector: Moon Knight in June 1989.

Although Tolkien's works had been successful in Britain, it was not until the late 1960s that they finally became popular in America ; however, at that point they began to sell steadily and in large numbers.

With the immense success of Tolkien's works many publishers began to search for a new series which could have similar mass-market appeal.

This view has gained acceptance from a number of medieval historians and Anglo-Saxon scholars both since Tolkien's initial lectures and since the publication of this posthumous collection.

Fionavar has many similarities to Tolkien's Middle-earth, and seems to be directly influenced by it ( perhaps not surprising, since Kay worked with Christopher Tolkien to edit The Silmarillion and prepare it for publication ).

The editorial team, in reply to this charge, notes the fact that, unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls, Tolkien's manuscripts are owned by and under the copyright of the Tolkien Estate, which thus has the right to restrict access to them and their publication as they see fit.

There are, however, some writings that are largely independent, and / or whose context has been sufficiently established by Christopher Tolkien's own chronological publication efforts in The History of Middle-earth, and so do not have to be presented in the normal chronological flow of the larger project.

Today it is an irregular publication dedicated to the editing of Tolkien's manuscripts describing his Elvish Languages.

Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, just prior to its paperback publication in America and subsequent cultural phenomenon:

The enduring popularity of The Lord of the Rings later leads to numerous references in popular culture, the founding of many societies by fans of Tolkien's works, and the publication of many books about Tolkien and his works.

Tolkien's conviction that the poem dates to the 8th century is defended by Tom Shippey ( 2007 ).

Tolkien's The Children of Hurin ( 2007 ).

* The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, 2007 massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in Tolkien's Middle-earth

But Leaf by Niggle can also be interpreted as an illustration of Tolkien's religious philosophy of creation and sub-creation.

Tolkien also explores the motif of jewels that inspire intense greed that corrupts those who covet them in the Silmarillion, and there are connections between the words " Arkenstone " and " Silmaril " in Tolkien's invented etymologies.

Patrick Curry notes that animism is also found in Tolkien's other works, and mentions the " roots of mountains " and " feet of trees " in The Hobbit as a linguistic shifting in level from the inanimate to animate.

Featural scripts are also common in fictional or invented systems, such as Tolkien's Tengwar.

In addition to providing the illustrations for her own Moomin books, Jansson also illustrated Swedish translations of classics such as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( some used later in Finnish translations as well ).

Tolkien's The Silmarillion, which also contains a creation scene driven by the effect of music.

The Nazgûl ( from Black Speech nazg, " ring ", and gûl, " wraith, spirit " ( presumably related to gul, " sorcery "); also called Ringwraiths, Ring-wraiths, Black Riders, Dark Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.

; Andrast: A peninsula in the south-west of Gondor ; the name translates from Sindarin as " long cape " and is also given an alternative in some of Tolkien's works, Ras Morthil with the meaning either " cape of dark sheen " or " cape of dark horn ".

Of other Gondor posts, in Tolkien's writings appear " ministers of the Crown concerned with ' intelligence '" who surveyed the palantíri ( see below ); Captain of the Hosts, borne by future King Falastur during the reign of his father ; and Captain of Gondor and Captain-General of Gondor applied to Faramir and Boromir respectively, with the former title also given to Eärnur when he commanded the Gondor army in Arthedain prior to his crowning.

In Tolkien's works, the Dwarves ( in the form of seven patriarchs ) were created during the Years of the Trees ( also known as the Ages of Darkness ), when all of Middle-earth was controlled by the forces of Melkor.

which can be taken as the inspiration not only for the role of Eärendil in Tolkien's work, but also for the term Middle-earth ( translating Middangeard ) for the inhabitable lands ( c. f.

Anthony Boucher praised the volume as " a masterly narration of tremendous and terrible climactic events ," although he also noted that Tolkien's prose " seems sometimes to be protracted for its own sake.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth, the Misty Mountains ( also known by its Sindarin name of Hithaeglir — misspelled as Hithaiglin on the original Lord of the Rings map — and as the Mountains of Mist ) is a mountain range, running for 795 miles ( 1280 kilometres ) from north to south, between Eriador and the valley of the Great River, Anduin, and from Mount Gundabad in the far north to Methedras in the south.

Aulë is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, who is primarily discussed in The Silmarillion, but appears also in Tolkien's other works.

In Tolkien's pantheon of Middle-earth, Aulë is a knowledge deity, sometimes worshipped as a god by men, representing skill and craftsmanship, who is also thematically associated with Earth, stone, metal and the dwarves.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Aman, also known as the Undying Lands or Blessed Realm, is the home of the Valar, and three kindreds of Elves: the Vanyar, some of the Noldor, and some of the Teleri.

It is also one of perhaps only two or three of Tolkien's languages known to possess noun classes, which roughly correspond to four grammatical genders.

In Tolkien's books, it was mostly populated by men, but hobbit servants worked at the Prancing Pony Inn and special hobbit-sized rooms were available there ; there were also some hobbit homes on the hill.

In fact Tolkien's The Hobbit ( 1937 ) features an incredible number of similarities beyond those mere aspects above, for instance, the two swords Orcrist and Glamdring correspond to the story, as well, Bilbo's Mithril shirt also stands in for the chain mail shirt of gold.

:* J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings also features a character known as Old Man Willow who traps some of Frodo's companions until they are rescued by Tom Bombadil.

He is also known as Ridcully the Brown, possibly as a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's wizards by color like Gandalf the Grey, Saruman the White or Radagast the Brown.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth, the Professor of Old English plays upon the phrase to provide the literal Crack ( s ) of Doom, physical cracks — fissures within the great volcano of Orodruin, also known as Mount Doom.

* the Elfstone, a jewel, also from the fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth