J. R. R. Tolkien
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UPDATE 4-Rackable Systems to buy Silicon Graphics for $25 mlnSilicon Graphics systems were also used to create the epic battle scenes in the movie version of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic's design of the Jurassic Park III dinosaurs. The deal... In this article: Silicon Graphics, Revenue, Bankruptcy, Industrial Light & Magic, United States bankruptcy court, Customer base, Fiscal year, and J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Chicago Sun-Times | November 06, 2009
Game of the Week: Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
...reminds me of the work of both J.R.R. Tolkien and George Lucas. The tone of the original work started out light and decidedly more kid-friendly (like Tolkien's The Hobbit). The series' chief protagonist, Ratchet, is the last of a cat-like...
In this article: Ratchet, Clank, Ratchet & Clank, J.R.R. Tolkien, George Lucas, Time travel, Ratchet & Clank Future, The Hobbit, and Luke Skywalker
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Entertainment Weekly | March 09, 2009
'Star Wars' series...still far, far away
...at 04:38 PM EST To Rhonda Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:16 PM EST You dont see JRR Tolkien or JK Rowling poo pooing on their creations like George Lucas has or has allowed Well...Tolkein has been dead for 36 years.... Talon Kaarde Tue,...
In this article: Star Wars, JK Rowling, George Lucas, JRR Tolkien, Jedi, Heir to the Empire, Harry Potter, Lucasfilm, and Star Wars
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Wikipedia | September 18, 2009
Development of Spore
.... Wright said, "I didn't want to make players feel like Luke Skywalker or Frodo Baggins. I wanted them to be like George Lucas or J.R.R. Tolkien." During the 2007 Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference, Wright added that he...
In this article: Spore, Will Wright, Maxis, Wii, Electronic Arts, Brian Eno, Civilization, Nintendo DS, and TED
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Salon | May 13, 2009
Why the original Star Trek still matters
...similarity between the two. George Lucas' space dramas are a bastardized mishmash of 1950s serials, classic quest mythology, film history and J.R.R. Tolkien, all elements pretty much absent from "Star Trek." Of course there's some...
In this article: Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, James T. Kirk, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Apollonian, Harlan Ellison, George Lucas, and Democracy
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www.washingtonpost.com | December 19, 2002
A Towering Achievement
...first film. Its production design, CGI (computer-generated imagery), storytelling (with, of course, all appropriate credit to J.R.R. Tolkien) and performances put George Lucas's recent "Star Wars" cycle to intergalactic shame. And "Towers"...
In this article: Gollum, John Rhys-Davies, Frodo Baggins, Gandalf, Peter Jackson, Dwarf, Theoden, Aragorn, Ian McKellan, and Shrek
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Variety | April 27, 2008
Hobbit Watch: Del Toro's the Right Guy
...world created by Jackson. It would be foolish to go too far astray, either from the original book (the success if the Jackson/Walsh trilogy derives from their faithfulness to Tolkien) or the blockbuster trilogy. O'Hehir makes some good...
In this article: Peter Jackson, Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, Salon, Guillermo del Toro, New Line Cinema, Pan's Labyrinth, and Fran Walsh
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Joystiq | February 14, 2008
Dead Rising, Dawn of the Dead similarities spark legal filings - Joystiq
...work is not an infringement; otherwise George Lucas could have been sued by effectively the entire world (including the recently litigious Tolkien estate) for Star Wars. Feb 14th 2008 In many ways Dead Rising was better than Dawn of...
In this article: Dawn of the Dead, Dead Rising, Capcom, George A. Romero, Nintendo, Cease and desist, and Plague
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Description from Wikipedia:
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (pronounced: /ˈtɒlkiːn/; in also IPA: /[ˈtoʊlkiːn]/) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature from 1945 to 1959. He was a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.
After his death, Tolkien's son, Christopher, published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about an imagined world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955 Tolkien applied the word legendarium to the larger part of these writings.
- Name At Birth:
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
- Birth Date:
- January 03, 1892
- Birthplace:
- Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (South Africa)
- Death Date:
- September 02, 1973
- Place of Death:
- Bournemouth, England
- Nationality:
- English
- Occupation:
- Author, Academic, Philologist, Poet
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