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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Professor Who Built Middle-earth (The Inspiring True Story)

J.R.R Tolkien shares the inspiration for the Lord of the Rings and how he started writing The Hobbit in this 1968 BBC interview. Regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Professor Tolkien was also an academic, and renowned scholar of language and literature, teaching at Oxford for many years. He pioneered the modern fantasy genre with his epic works and has profoundly influenced literature, film, and popular culture worldwide. Video source: BBC Archive #history #lordofth

JRR Tolkien writing Elvish. The author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings created several languages for his Middle-Earth books. The most developed were Quenya (High-elven) and Sindarin (Grey-elven). Qenya is based on the grammatical principles of Finnish and, on paper, has similar dots and umlauts to indicate any changes in sound of the various characters. Sindarin, described in the books as a descendant of Qenya, is based heavily on Welsh, one of Tolkien's favourite languages because of th