Writers on Germanic Paganism: J. R. R. Tolkien, Jacob Grimm, Axel Olrik, Georges Dumezil, Viktor Rydberg, Lotte Motz, Hilda Ellis Davidson

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: J. R. R. Tolkien, Jacob Grimm, Axel Olrik, Georges Dumezil, Viktor Rydberg, Lotte Motz, Hilda Ellis Davidson, Stephen Flowers, Stephan Grundy, Magnus Olsen, Jan de Vries, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Sophus Bugge, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Peter Andreas Munch, Gabriel Turville-Petre, Bertha Phillpotts, Ebbe Schon, Karl Joseph Simrock, Rudolf Simek, Rudolf Much, Benjamin Thorpe, Otto Hofler, John Lindow, Ottar Gronvik, Hector Munro Chadwick, Oscar Almgren, John Grigsby, H. A. Guerber, Edgar Charles Polome, Sverre Marstrander. 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 was a close friend of C. S. Lewis-they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972. After his death, Tolkien's son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings. While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgenc... View Less