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The Silmarillion

by J. R. R. Tolkien

Locus Award · 1978 · Winner
Science Fiction & FantasyISBN 9780007322565

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel1978Winner

About the Author

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) was an English author and philologist best known for his high fantasy novels The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55), which together with The Silmarillion form a connected legendarium of Middle-earth. Estate. A scholar of Old and Middle English at Oxford University, he pioneered modern fantasy literature and received the CBE in 1972.

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