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The 32 pages that link to J. R. R. Tolkien, each with the reason it gives.

• University of OxfordRelated: Tolkien’s Oxford academic career joined philology with influential literary work.

• MythopoeiaRelated: Tolkien explicitly described his work as an effort to create a mythology for England.

• WorldbuildingRelated: His invented languages, histories, and mythologies became a model for fantasy worldbuilding.

• Poetic EddaRelated: His scholarship and fiction reflect engagement with Old Norse poetic traditions.

• C. S. LewisRelated: Tolkien’s friendship and arguments about myth and Christianity influenced Lewis’s conversion and fiction.

• Constructed languageRelated: His invented languages helped shape modern artistic language construction.

• BeowulfRelated: His essay argued that the poem’s monsters belong at its artistic center.

• FantasyRelated: His fiction profoundly influenced the conventions and readership of modern epic fantasy.

• NeologismRelated: His fiction shows how invented vocabulary can be embedded in a constructed language and imagined history.

• The Lord of the RingsRelated: His scholarship and imaginative practice produced the novel’s languages, histories, and narrative.

• Old Norse literatureRelated: Old Norse language and heroic poetry informed parts of his scholarly and creative work.

• Literary fairy taleRelated: His essay “On Fairy-stories” examined the form's purposes and possibilities.

• George MacDonaldRelated: Tolkien acknowledged MacDonald’s influence while criticizing aspects of his fairy-tale theory.

• Christopher LeeRelated: Lee admired Tolkien’s work and played Saruman in its film adaptations.

• Iris MurdochRelated: Murdoch's novel The Good Apprentice draws its title from Tolkien's phrase about the moral limits of mastery.

• Lord DunsanyRelated: Tolkien named Dunsany among writers whose fantasy helped shape the genre he later transformed.

• WarwickshireRelated: He grew up in Sarehole, then a rural Warwickshire village, whose landscape informed his imagination.

• Ian McKellenRelated: Tolkien created the character McKellen portrayed as Gandalf.

• Marc OkrandRelated: Tolkien’s language-centered worldbuilding is a major precedent for Okrand’s work.

• David CrystalRelated: Crystal has discussed Tolkien’s philological background and the role of language in his literary work.

• SigurdRelated: Tolkien’s scholarship and fiction engaged deeply with the Sigurd and Nibelung traditions.

• Fictional languageRelated: Tolkien developed Elvish languages as a central part of his fictional world's history.

• Gawain PoetRelated: His edition and translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight helped bring the poem to modern audiences.

• History of fantasyRelated: His Middle-earth books established a hugely influential model of epic secondary-world fantasy.

• Michael EndeRelated: Comparisons with Tolkien place Ende within the international rise of modern fantasy.

• Music of The Lord of the Rings film seriesRelated: Tolkien’s languages, poems, and imagined cultures supplied material for the score’s vocal writing.

• Naomi MitchisonRelated: Tolkien and Mitchison corresponded about fantasy and writing; he valued her comments on The Lord of the Rings.

• Orson Scott CardRelated: Tolkien’s mythic world-building provides a major point of comparison for Card’s fantasy writing.