J. R. R. Tolkien began to construct his first Elfin tongue c. 1910 – 1911 while he was at the King Edward's School, Birmingham.

In the early 30s Tolkien decided that the proto-language of the Elves was Valarin, the tongue of the gods or Valar: " The language of the Elves derived in the beginning from the Valar, but they change it even in the learning, and moreover modified and enriched it constantly at all times by their own invention.

Tolkien describes him as " a wizened figure of a man, with a pale wise face, and heavy lidded eyes ", with a " long pale tongue ".

Tolkien also elaborated on Jewish influence on his Dwarves in a letter: " I do think of the ' Dwarves ' like Jews: at once native and alien in their habitations, speaking the languages of the country, but with an accent due to their own private tongue ..."

Sometime before 1969 Tolkien wrote the essay Of Dwarves and Men, in which detailed consideration was given to the Dwarves ' use of language, that the names given in the stories were of Northern Mannish origin, and Khuzdûl being their own secret tongue and the naming of the Seven Houses of the Dwarves.

J. R. R. Tolkien in his 1955 lecture " English and Welsh " distinguishes the " native tongue " from the " cradle tongue ," the latter being the language one happens to learn during early childhood, while one's true " native tongue " may be different, possibly determined by an inherited linguistic taste, and may later in life be discovered by a strong emotional affinity to a specific dialect ( Tolkien personally confessed to such an affinity to the Middle English of the West Midlands in particular ).

His name translates from Sindarin, an Elven tongue devised by Tolkien, as ' King of Eagles '; its cognate form in Quenya, another Elven language, is Sorontar.

During the writing of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien toyed with the idea of making Taliska the primordial tongue of the people of Rohan who spoke Old English in his translated setting of The Lord of the Rings.

1910: J. R. R. Tolkien begins to construct his first Elfin tongue while he is at the King Edward's School, Birmingham.

To refer to such an inherited taste of language, Tolkien introduces the term of " native tongue " as opposed to " cradle tongue ".

* Stock, a fictional village in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien

It is thought to have been inspired by the Buckinghamshire village of Brill, which Tolkien visited regularly in his early years at Oxford.

The name Bree means " hill " according to Tolkien, referring to the fact that the village of Bree and the surrounding Bree-land were clustered around a large hill.

Soon after their marriage, Tolkien commenced a course at the British Army signals school at Otley, and Edith moved to be as close to his military camp as possible, moving with her cousin Jennie Grove to a cottage in the village of Great Haywood, where she lived from April 1916 to February 1917.

It is also often said that J. R. R. Tolkien based the village of Bree in The Lord of the Rings on Brill.

The old village of Sarehole ( now on the border of Hall Green and Moseley ) is where J. R. R. Tolkien lived as a child and gained inspiration for the Hobbit's home " The Shire ".

* The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son is the title of a work by J. R. R. Tolkien that was originally published in 1953 in volume 6 of the scholarly journal Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association.

The word tarlang means " stiff neck " in Sindarin, and was stated by Tolkien to have originally been the name of the mountain ridge, later interpreted by folk as a personal name .</ div >

Christopher Tolkien gathered that originally his father imagined only two or three centuries between the first fall of Sauron and the War of the Ring, foreseeing no complicated events to have happened during this time.

Tolkien originally used it as a nickname for a man living in Lamorna Cove, England before adapting it into his stories:

While Tolkien originally described Middle-earth as a fictional early history of the real Earth he later adjusted this slightly to describe it as a mythical time within the history of Earth.

As Tolkien originally wrote it, The Silmarillion ends with a prophecy by Mandos about the Dagor Dagorath.

In The Book of Lost Tales ( published in two parts ), the young Tolkien originally intended Eärendil, then spelled Earendel, to be the first of the Half-elven.

Authors published originally by Collins include H. G. Wells, Agatha Christie and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Tolkien, originally told in 1925.

Formerly Tolkien-flavoured variant Tales of Middle Earth ( ToME ) was originally derived from the ZAngband code base, but was rewritten from scratch for version 4. 0. 0, and no longer uses a Tolkien setting as it now has its own original fantasy setting.

Tolkien recounts this battle in The Return of the King, the third volume of his 1954-55 novel The Lord of the Rings as originally printed.

Tolkien originally described that Eä, the World, was bounded by the Walls of Night, and that the space above the surface of the Earth up to the Walls was divided into three regions ; common birds could keep aloft only within the lower layer, while the Eagles of Manwë could fly " beyond the lights of heaven to the edge of darkness ".

" The Quest of Erebor " was originally written in the 1950s to be a part of The Lord of the Rings Appendices but Tolkien decided not to include it due to space limitations, and only a very abridged version of the tale occurred in Appendix A, III Durin's Folk.

Tolkien originally sold the film, stage and merchandise rights of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to United Artists in 1968, but they never made a film, and in 1976 the rights were sold to Tolkien Enterprises, a division of the Saul Zaentz Company.

Elfcon ( also ELFcon ), short for " Elvish Linguistic Fellowship Convention ", is a convention first proposed by Jorge Quiñónez, and then organized and originally hosted by Bill Welden, dedicated to the study of the languages created by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Though Tolkien originally conceived his Elves as more fairy-like than they afterwards became, he also based them on the god-like and human-sized Ljósálfar of Norse mythology.

One of the most popular " trilogies " of fantasy books, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, is not a trilogy, though it is often referred to as such.

At the time Tolkien was writing this, the name Finrod referred to the third son of Finwë, and this Finrod had a son Inglor Felagund.

This incident inspired the account of the meeting of Beren and Lúthien, and Tolkien often referred to Edith as " my Lúthien.

While Tolkien referred to the language of the Rohirrim as " Rohan " or ( disputedly ) " Rohanese ", the term " Rohirric ", coined by Robert Foster, the author of The Complete Guide to Middle-earth, is far more commonly used.

Despite the limits of AoWEd, creative scenario makers ( also referred to as ‘ mapmakers ’) were able to draw maps with rich stories from their own imaginations, or took inspiration from classic fantasy worlds such as that of Tolkien, Dungeons & Dragons, etc.

In some texts Tolkien referred to the ' First Age of Middle-earth ' or the ' First Age of the World ' rather than the ' First Age of the Children of Ilúvatar '.

In 1966, Tolkien referred to " cellar door " in an interview, using it as an example of the way in which words will shape his stories: " Supposing you say some quite ordinary words to me, ' cellar door ', say ," he said.

In 1971 Tolkien once again referred to his " invention ":

* Dragon ( Middle-earth ), in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien