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El Retorno del Rey
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J.R.R. Tolkien
844 books80.4k followersJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets.
Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly.
Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium’ that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children’s stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly.
Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium’ that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children’s stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
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October 15, 2026
Como me ha gustado revivir las batallas y el amorio de Eowyn con Faramir, que bonita es esa parte, con los personajes luchando contra sus propios demonios y miedos. Como contra punto se me sigue haciendo muy tedioso la parte de Sam y Frodo hacia el monte del Destino... Tanta sobre explicación de esa parte me marea y aburre sobre manera. Es un contraste muy grande, con la agilidad y dinamismo de los otros capítulos.
El final es maravilloso, con la limpieza de la Comarca, las despedidas a poquitos y ese crecimiento del árbol y su floración.
Que bonito es volver a Tolkien de vez en cuando.
El final es maravilloso, con la limpieza de la Comarca, las despedidas a poquitos y ese crecimiento del árbol y su floración.
Que bonito es volver a Tolkien de vez en cuando.
July 30, 2025
Es con diferencia el que más me ha gustado de los tres. No se me ha hecho pesado, la lectura es muchísimo más fluida que los anteriores y me ha parecido más interesante todo, gracias a la variedad de eventos que en él ocurren. También es de agradecer todos los apéndices que posee el libro al final, los cuales nos permiten saber más sobre este mundo y adentrarnos en él todavía más. La única pega es la densidad, porque hay ocasiones en las que se hace, literalmente, denso, pero por el resto esta muy bien.
August 21, 2026
Me ha encantado volver a releerlo (había detalles del final que no recordaba y me han llamado mucho más la atención de lo que lo hicieron la primera vez que lo leí). Esta edición de bolsillo está muy bien, además, se agradece que no se le suelten las páginas (xD) y la presencia de los apéndices al final.
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