The Monster and the Critics, while lesser-known works of fiction are The Smith of Wooton Major and Farmer Giles of Hamm.
He fought in World War I and worked on the staff of the Oxford English dictionary before becoming a professor of English literature at Oxford.  His scholarly works include A Middle English Vocabulary and the lecture series Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics, while lesser-known works of fiction are The Smith of Wooton Major and Farmer Giles of Hamm. He is best known for a series of works that includes the posthumously published work The Silmarillion. FTP, identify this novelist and philologist, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
He fought in World War I and worked on the staff of the Oxford English dictionary before becoming a professor of English literature at Oxford.  
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien