Хронология жизни Дж.Р.Р.Толкина
1892 | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien born, 3 January, at Bloemfontein, South Africa |
1900 | Begins to attend King Edward's School, Birmingham |
1908 | Meets Edith Bratt |
1911 | Formation of the 'T.C.B.S.' an informal club of Tolkien and his literary schoolmates; enters Exeter College, Oxford |
1913 | Awarded Second Class in Honour Moderations; begins to read for the Honours School of English Language and Literature |
1915 | Awarded First Class Honours; commissioned in the Lancshire Fusiliers |
1916 | Marries Edith Bratt, 22 March; in June, embarks for France; Battle of the Somme; in November, returns to England suffering from trench fever; begins to write his 'Silmarillion' mifology |
1917 | Birth of eldest son, John |
1918 | Joins the staff of the 'Oxford English Dictionary' |
1920 | Appointed Reader in English Language at Leeds; birth of third son, Christopher |
1925 | "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (edited with E.V.Gordon) published; elected Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford |
1926 | Meets C.S.Lewis |
1929 | Birth of daughter, Priscilla |
1933 | Tolkien, C.S.Lewis, and other friends begin to meet as 'The Inklings', to whom Tolkien reads his works-in-progress |
1936 | Delivers British Academy lecture, 'Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics' |
1937 | "The Hobbit" published; begins to write "The Lord of the Rings" |
1939 | Delivers Andrew Lang Lecture, 'On Fairy-Stories' |
1945 | Elected Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford; "Leaf by Niggle" published |
1949 | "Farmer Giles of Ham" published |
1953 | "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son' published |
1954 | "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Tower" (vols.1 and 2 of "The Lord of the Rings") published; receives honorary degrees from thr National University of Ireland and the University of Liege |
1955 | "The Return of the King" (vol. 3 of "The Lord of the Rings") published; delivers O'Donnell Lecture, 'English and Welsh' |
1959 | Retires from his professorship |
1962 | "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" and "Ancrene Wisse" published |
1964 | "Tree and Leaf" published |
1965 | Ace Books and Ballantine Books publish paperback edition of "The Lord of the Rings"; 'Tolkien cult' begins in the United States |
1967 | "The Road Goes Ever On" (with Donald Swann) and "Smith of Wootton Major" published |
1971 | Edith Tolkien dies |
1972 | Awarded C.B.E., receives honorary degree from Oxford University |
1973 | Dies, 2 September, in Bournemouth |
1975 | "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo" published |
1976 | "The Father Christmas Letters" published |
1977 | "The Silmarillion" published |
1979 | "Pictures by J.R.R.Tolkien" published |
1980 | "Unfinished Tales" published |
1981 | "Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien" published |
1983-... | "The History of Middle-earth" published |
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