J. R. R. Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", and "The Silmarillion". He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both
The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game entitled "The Mines of Moria" was also released. In early 2009, Games Workshop also released an expansion to the original game called "War of the Ring" which, according to the company, allows players to emulate the large battles included in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" by streamlining the game system. This expansion differs from the main game in several ways. Firstly, "War of the Ring" uses a larger number of models but the models are placed on movement trays with two cavalry models or eight infantry models on each. This allows for much easier and quicker