"Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate."
J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer, philologist, and scholar best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon and later English language and literature at Oxford. His legendarium became foundational to modern epic fantasy.