In the prologue to The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien writes that Hobbits are between two and four feet ( 0. 61 – 1. 22 m ) tall, the average height being three feet six inches ( 1. 07 m ).

In Unfinished Tales Tolkien writes that on the 20th of September in Gríma was captured by the Nazgûl in the fields of the Rohirrim, while on his way to Isengard to inform Saruman of Gandalf's arrival at Edoras.

In The Lord of the Rings Tolkien writes that they breed slowly, for no more than a third of them are female, and not all marry ; also, female Dwarves look and sound ( and dress, if journeying — which is rare ) so alike to Dwarf-males that other folk cannot distinguish them, and thus others wrongly believe Dwarves grow out of stone.

Tolkien writes that the Elves made many lesser rings as essays in the craft, but eventually with Sauron's assistance they forged the Seven and the Nine.

In this long line, Tolkien writes, there appeared occasionally " an heir so like to his Forefather that he received the name of Durin.

J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, stayed in Great Haywood during the winter of 1916 / 17 and in his story ' The Tale of the Sun and the Moon ' ( The Book of Lost Tales 1 ) he writes about a gnome called Gilfanon who owned an ancient house "... the House of a Hundred Chimneys, that stands nigh the bridge of Tavrobel ".

In The History of Middle-earth Tolkien writes about an Orc captain named Boldog but later specifies that Boldog may have been either a term or a title for another special kind of Orc instead of a personal name.

Tolkien writes that these bore a white Elf-rune with the value of " S " on their helmets.

All Tolkien writes of her then, though, is that she died there in the water.

Tolkien writes that Faramir was outnumbered by ten times at Osgiliath, where he lost one third of his men.

Fram slew the dragon Scatha the Worm, and according to some accounts was killed in dissension between the Éothéod and the Dwarves arising from the distribution of Scatha's hoard ; as a result, Tolkien writes, " There was no great love between Éothéod and the Dwarves.

Although Tolkien writes that Nandorin Elves came down the Anduin as early as the First Age, it is only in the Second Age that Elves are mentioned specifically near Dol Amroth.

Tolkien writes that their race became mixed with lesser men, and " quickly dwindled ".

In an early draft of the " Music of the Ainur ", Tolkien writes: "... Only one thing I have added, the fire that giveth Life and Reality, and behold, the secret fire burnt at the heart of the world .".

In The Hobbit, Tolkien writes of the protagonist and title character Bilbo Baggins composing his memoirs.

Tolkien writes of several other historical documents related to the Red Book, but it is unclear whether these were integrated into editions.

His fate is not described, although Tolkien writes almost all of the servants of Sauron that fought before the gates of Minas Tirith were killed.

Tolkien writes nothing else about Gothmog — not even what race of beings he belonged to.

Other errors include the pronunciation of " Dúnedain " as rhyming with " pain " — whereas it should rhyme with " dine ", as Tolkien writes in one of his appendices.

" This theft of a cup, Smaug's knowledge of every item in the hoard, and the dragon's ensuing rampage all echo the story of Beowulf, on which Tolkien was a noted expert and which he described as one of his " most valued sources " for The Hobbit.

Though not well known among philosophers, his philosophical work was taken up by Owen Barfield ( and through him influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis ) and Richard Tarnas.

Shippey says that Tolkien knew well the translation of Boethius that was made by King Alfred and he quotes some “ Boethian ” remarks from Frodo, Treebeard and Elrond.

The Cirth (; " Runes ") are the letters of a semi-artificial script which was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien for the constructed languages he devised and used in his works.

This brash act ( which ultimately benefited his primary competitors as well as Tolkien ) was really the Big Bang that founded the modern fantasy field, and only someone like my father could have done that.

He did pay Tolkien, and he was responsible for making not only Tolkien but Ballantine Books extremely wealthy.

Tolkien had authorized a paperback edition of The Hobbit in 1961, though that edition was never made available outside the U. K.

In any case, Ace was forced to cease publishing the unauthorized edition and to pay Tolkien for their sales following a grass-roots campaign by Tolkien's U. S. fans.

Jacob Grimm in his Deutsches Wörterbuch deplored the " unhochdeutsch " form Elf, borrowed " unthinkingly " from the English, and Tolkien was inspired by Grimm to recommend reviving the genuinely German form in his Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings ( 1967 ) and Elb, Elben was consequently reintroduced in the 1972 German translation of The Lord of the Rings.

It was also an influence on J. R. R. Tolkien, who read it a few years before it was published in 1917.

High fantasy was brought to fruition through the work of authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.

This was something Tolkien often denied ; rather, he suggested that Middle-earth was the primary world, but in the past .< ref > Letters 183: " I am historically minded.

In his work Finn and Hengest, J. R. R. Tolkien argued that Hengist was a historical figure, and that Hengist came to Britain after the events recorded in the Finnesburg Fragment and Beowulf.

Tolkien was compulsive in his writing, his revision, his desire for perfection in form and in the " reality " of his invented world, its languages, its chronologies, its existence.

Like Niggle, Tolkien faced many chores and duties that kept him from the work he loved ; and like Niggle, Tolkien was a horrible procrastinator.

They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.

It was around this time that J. R. R. Tolkien was employed by the OED, researching etymologies of the Waggle to Warlock range ; he parodied the principal editors as " The Four Wise Clerks of Oxenford " in the story Farmer Giles of Ham.

It was initially written for presentation by Tolkien as the Andrew Lang lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 1939.

On Fairy-Stories was subsequently published with Leaf by Niggle in Tree and Leaf, as well as in The Tolkien Reader, published in 1966.

Tolkien was among the pioneers of the genre that we would now call fantasy writing.

Tolkien wrote, many years later: " it was like discovering a complete wine-cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before.

The courage displayed by Samwise Gamgee on his journey with Frodo, his subjection to dangers and the preparedness to die out of loyalty for Frodo is the kind of spirit that was praised by Tolkien in a number of essays on the Old English poem " The Battle of Maldon ".

Tolkien later remarked in a letter that through further study of folklore he had subsequently learned that " the statement that hobgoblins were ' a larger kind ' goblins is the reverse of the original truth ".

Due to his inspiration from Hrómundar saga Gripssonar, during the writing of The Lord of the Rings ( see The History of The Lord of the Rings ) Tolkien at first foresaw a link between the wights and the Ringwraiths, initially describing the Black Riders as horsed wights, but the suggestion that they were the same kind of creatures was dropped in the published work.

* In Elizabeth Moon's trilogy The Deed of Paksenarrion features, as well as elves of the Tolkien type, another kind called the iynisin or the unsingers.