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ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITOR<br />

J.R.R. TOLKIEN was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein. After serving in the First World War,<br />

Tolkien embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest<br />

philologists in the world. He is, however, best known as the creator of Middle-earth and author of<br />

such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The<br />

Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than sixty languages and have sold many<br />

millions of copies worldwide. He was awarded a CBE, and an honorary doctorate of letters from<br />

Oxford University in 1972. He died in 1973 at the age of eighty-one.<br />

CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN, born on November 21, 1924, is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. Appointed by<br />

Tolkien to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself since his father’s death to the editing and<br />

publication of unpublished writings, notably The Silmarillion and the collections entitled Unfinished<br />

Tales and The History of Middle-earth. He and his wife, Baillie, have lived in France since 1975.

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