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J.R.R. Tolkien, Designer of Worlds


Catalogue Number:  A196-006
Producer:  ARTE France
Producers:  Phares & Balises
Directors:  Backès, Simon
Producing Agencies:  ARTE France, Compagne des Phares et Balises
Subject:  Arts, Biography, English, History, Literature, Social Sciences, Social Studies
Language:  English
Grade Level:  9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin:  France
Copyright Year:  2014
Running Time:  55:28


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For many people, the English writer JRR Tolkien (1892-1973) is above all the author of the Lord of the Rings, the film series directed and produced by Peter Jackson from 2001 to 2003. But what most people are unaware of is that this immensely successful novel is only the tip of a monumental corpus, started in the 1910s, and which Tolkien pursued to the day he died in 1973.

Also available in French: J.R.R. Tolkien, des mots, des mondes


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