Reception of J. R. R. Tolkien Midgårds Fylking or Uppsala Tolkien society, was founded in Uppsala Sweden 1973, and is today the largest Tolkien society in Sweden. It's a closed society, but members of other Tolkien societies can sometimes visit. Official homepage in Swedish. In Denmark, Tolkien became well known in the 1970s and has considerably influenced Danish language fantasy literature since. In 1977, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark illustrated "The Lord of the Rings". There are two Danish Tolkien societies; Bri, the Danish Tolkien Society, and Imladris, which is a virtual community. "The Hobbit" appeared in Norwegian translation in 1972 and "The Lord of the
Descent into Hell (novel) Descent into Hell (novel) Descent Into Hell is a novel written by Charles Williams, first published in 1937. Williams is less well known than his fellow Inklings, such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Like some of them, however, he wrote a series of novels which combine elements of fantasy fiction and Christian symbolism. Forgoing the detective fiction style of most of his earlier supernatural novels, most of the story's action is spiritual or psychological in nature. It fits the "theological thriller" description sometimes given to his works. For this reason "Descent" was initially rejected by publishers,