A Few More Facts (About J.R.R. Tolkien)
- Devout Roman Catholic
- Created his own languages and mythologies
- Composed maps, histories, genealogies, glossaries, poems, and songs to supplement his vision of Middle-earth
- Taught himself many languages - Latin, Greek, Welsh, Old & Middle English, Old Norse, Gothic, and Finnish
- Known for “unique modern fiction”
- “The most important fantasy stories of the modern period.” - Augustus M. Kolich
- “Encompasses a reality that rivals Western man’s own attempt at recording the composite, knowable history of his species. Not since Milton has any English man worked so successfully at creating a secondary world that includes a vast gallery of strange beings: hobbits, elves, dwarfs, orcs, and finally, the men of Westernesse.” - Augustus M. Kolich
- Tolkien drew on Northern and other ancient literatures