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"V. Gordon; an important article on the early Middle English work, Ancrene Wisse; Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics, which is regarded as a turning point in the study of the poem; translation of Middle English poems Pearl and Sir Orfeo; and his now-famous essay On Fairy-Stories, which was written while he was in early stages of writing The Lord of the Rings.
Based on this notion, he started writing a series of stories as a sort of mythology for England which he called The Silmarillion and along with it, he developed Quenya and Sindarin, the most advanced languages he created.
In a letter to Milton Waldman, he elaborates on his ideas about mythology and his quest to create one for England: …an equally basic passion of mine ab initio was for myth (not allegory!) and for fairy-story, and above all for heroic legend on the brink of fairy-tale and history, of which there is far too little in the world (accessible to me) for my appetite.
The pressure led to completion of The Lord of the Rings, a *On 5 June 1985, Tolkien gave an interview to New York Review of Books where he said: "I am a philologist, and all my work is philological.
These include the twelve- volume The History of Middle-earth which contains songs, geographical, demographical, mythological and philological material Tolkien created for Middle-earth, and shows the true depth of Tolkien’s world."