First celebrated in 1978 by the American Tolkien Society, Tolkien Week is an annual festival that honors the work of J.R.R. Tolkien during calendar week that contains Sept. 22 (the birthday of hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins), known as Hobbit Day. Tolkien Week 2021 is Sunday, Sept. 19 through Saturday, Sept. 25, and this year there's something extra to celebrate.
The Hobbit was first published in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings series was published in 1954 and 1955, but Professor Tolkien continued to write about the world he created. This collection of notes about Middle-earth are now curated, edited, and published in an all new book, The Nature of Middle-earth.
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The Middle-earth series is his best known work:
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"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers