British Philologists - British Classical Philologists, English Philologists, Scottish Philologists, J. R. R. Tolkien, Michael Ventris (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: British classical philologists, English philologists, Scottish philologists, J. R. R. Tolkien, Michael Ventris, William Jones, William Barnes, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, Nathan Bailey, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, Richard Bentley, Battiscombe Gunn, William Robertson Smith, John Horne Tooke, James Prinsep, Joseph Wright, William George Aston, James Cowles Prichard, James Murray, Alexander Melville Bell, Henry Sweet, Eugene Aram, Jacob Henderson, William Balfour Baikie, Kenneth Dover, Frederick James Furnivall, Jonathan Boucher, John Richardson, Walter William Skeat, Raymond O. Faulkner, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, John Chadwick, John Duncan, Isaac Taylor, Alexander Macbain, Alexander Crombie, Joseph Planta, William Greenfield, John Oxlee, Laurence Nowell, Alexander John Ellis, E. V. Gordon, Ralph Lilley Turner, Gabriel Turville-Petre, Albert Hugh Smith, Eduard Fraenkel, John Trotter Brockett, Edwin Norris, Alan Gardiner, Joan Turville-Petre, Samuel Birch, Hyde Clarke, Henry Hervey Baber, Robert Gordon Latham, Peter Giles, Henry Tattam, Michael Samuels, Richard Cleasby, John William Donaldson, William Craigie, Hector Munro Chadwick, Frederick William Ratcliffe, Richard Rudolf Walzer, George Stephens, John Palsgrave, Harry Leonard Shorto, Robert Shackleton, Ernest Weekley, John Strachan, Robert Seymour Conway, James Adams, Richard Morris, Viking Club, Elizabeth Jeffreys. Excerpt: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 - 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature there from 1945 to 1959. He...