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Biographical note
J.R.R. Tolkien was born on 3rd January 1892 in Bloemfontein. After serving in the First World War, Tolkien embarked upon a distinguished academic career. He is, however, best known as the creator of Middle-earth and author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into 80 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. He was awarded a CBE and an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Oxford University in 1972. He died in 1973 at the age of 81.
John Howe was born in 1957 in Vancouver, Canada. He has illustrated many French children’s books, but is best known for his Tolkien calendars, book jackets, maps and posters and as the author of A Middle-earth Traveller. He was Conceptual Artist on Peter Jackson’s acclaimed Middle-earth movie trilogies, and most recently he has worked on Amazon Prime’s The Rings of Power and the Warner Bros. animated film, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.