Tolkien's writing has such popularity that in the 1960s and afterwards, elves speaking an elvish language similar to those in Tolkien's novels ( like Quenya, and Sindarin ) became staple non-human characters in high fantasy works and in fantasy role-playing games.

There he learnt a lot about writing and editing, and later admitted of Tolkien's influence, " to be successful in fantasy, you have to take the measure of Tolkien — work with his strengths and away from his weaknesses ".

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 ).

The three of them appear roughly at their final places on the original Tolkien's working map of the southern lands, as well as all locations mentioned above, the approximate line of coast, including Tolfalas, and the forerunner of Dol Amroth, apparently brought about with the development of the legend of Nimrodel while writing the " Lothlórien " chapter.

The essay represents the last of Tolkien's writing regarding the Dwarves and was published in volume 12 of The History of Middle-earth in 1996.

Despite Tolkien's fondness for it, the form dwarrow only appears in his writing as Dwarrowdelf, a name for Moria.

Many additional facts are adduced to the argument, but there is not enough firm description in Tolkien's writing to settle the argument definitively.

The Great Gate was rebuilt of mithril ( the hardest of all metals in Tolkien's writing ) and steel by Gimli and Dwarves of Erebor from the Lonely Mountain who had settled in the Glittering Caves.

Michael D. C. Drout's " Tolkien's Prose Style and its Literary and Rhetorical Effects ", featured in the academic journal Tolkien Studies, published by West Virginia University Press, analyzes Tolkien's writing style and deduces influence from and parallels with King Lear.

At the same time, Swann was maintaining a prolific musical output, writing the music for several operas and operettas, including a full-length version of C. S. Lewis's Perelandra, and a setting of J. R. R. Tolkien's poems from The Lord of the Rings to music in The Road Goes Ever On collection.

# The Early History of the Legend — an introduction to the following two pieces, detailing how Tolkien's correspondence with C. S. Lewis led to the writing of The Lost Road.

The first versions of the long lays fit chronologically in with Tolkien's earliest writings, as recounted in The Book of Lost Tales, but the later version of The Lay of Leithian is contemporary with the writing of The Lord of the Rings.

Eventually the band renamed itself ' Flotsam and Jetsam ' after writing a song inspired from a chapter of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Two Towers.

Boldog is considered as a particularly important orc in Tolkien's legendarium ; he is one of only three orcs ( the others being Bolg and Azog ) to have been named in Tolkien's works before the writing of The Lord of the Rings.

For example, much of the backstory of Lord of the Rings is later filled in in Tolkien's The Silmarillion, but this would not make Rings an example of in medias res writing.

However, in the same section Tolkien also addresses hobbit ( which was certainly created first and translated afterward, as described in Tolkien's own comment on the initial writing of The Hobbit ) and Brandywine ( an obvious English pun on the Elvish Baranduin, ' justified ' as translation of a similarly alcoholic pun in Westron ).

" Unfortunately, there are no clues as to what writing systems influenced Tolkien's scripts.

Towards the end of his life, the focus of Tolkien's writing shifted from story telling inspired by his philological pursuits to more philosophical concerns, and Tolkien never finished a unified, systematic, and internally consistent narrative.

" She had also recently reread J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and afterwards was inspired to " trying writing a novel of magic and fantasy ".

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.

The Tunnels & Trolls core ruleset does not detail a specific setting, saying only that gameplay occurs in " a world somewhat but not exactly similar to Tolkien's Middle Earth.

The race of Men in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books, such as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, refers to humanity and does not denote gender.

Therefore, MERP represents an interpretation of Middle-earth that does not directly involve the players in the continuity of Tolkien's published works.

However, Tolkien's use of this model does not necessarily mean that his birds were ordinary Golden Eagles.

Figwit does not appear in Tolkien's writings and was created exclusively for the films ; thus there is little authentic information regarding him, save that he was an escort.

In 2004, Hostetter states that he still does not have ( and never will have ) permission to publish any of his group's work with Tolkien's papers without the review and approval of the Tolkien Estate's lawyers for copyright reasons.

' Le fantastique ' does not cover the kind of complete secondary world creation typified by Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

However, Turbine does not have rights to any other works in Tolkien's legendarium, such as The Silmarillion or The Children of Húrin.

This song does not appear in Tolkien's writings ; it was composed and sung by Enya, the lyrics were written by Roma Ryan.

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.

These Giants may be related to the race of Man, though the scant information about them had led to debate over their exact nature and even their existence as an independent race in Tolkien's world.

Tom Shippey cites this 1923 poem and its mate, " The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon " ( also from 1923, also subsequently included in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ) as typical examples of Tolkien's working strategy for reconstructing philological information about sources now lost.

The essay is significant because it contains Tolkien's explanation of his philosophy on fantasy and thoughts on mythopoiesis.

* Tolkien on Fairy-Stories, by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson: " A new expanded edition of Tolkien's most famous, and most important essay, which defined his conception of fantasy as a literary form ..."( 2008 ) ISBN 978-0-00-724466-9.

Created proverb from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings on a bumper sticker.

Tolkien: Master of Middle-earth ," which describes the impact Tolkien's writings had on him, is featured in the following titles:

The novel draws on Tolkien's knowledge of northern European historical literature, myth and languages.

Tolkien's fictional Notion Club ( see " Sauron Defeated ") was based on the Inklings.

At the time he was cast, McKellen had never read any of Tolkien's works, but he quickly developed his knowledge of The Lord of the Rings and based his accent on Tolkien.

" The Bard's Song-The Hobbit " is a song by the Power metal band Blind Guardian, featured in their 1992 album Somewhere Far Beyond which is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

Tolkien noted that the capital Minas Tirith was situated on a latitude comparable to that of Venice, and the total area of Gondor as represented on Tolkien's maps was estimated by Karen Wynn Fonstad at.

; Tarnost: A town marked on Tolkien's working maps of Gondor, where it is placed on the southern side of the pass in the hills between rivers Ringló and Gilrain.

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.

A common noun arda " realm " turns up in Tolkien's writings on Elvish from the 1930s, but there is not yet any hint that he conceived it as a Quenya name of the world.

Calacirya ( meaning " Light Cleft " in Tolkien's artificial Elvish language Quenya ) is the pass in the Pelóri mountains north of Taniquetil where the elven city Tirion was set on Túna hill.

J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium features dragons closely based on those of European legend.

Tolkien's dragons are capable of breeding on their own, and in later ages the Withered Heath is purportedly their spawning ground.

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.

Tolkien's novels The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, as well as in the highly successful feature films based on those books.