J. R. R. Tolkien: Ìyàtọ̀ láàrin àwọn àtúnyẹ̀wò

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'''John Ronald Reuel Tolkien''', [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (3 January 1892{{ndash}} 2 September 1973)<ref>Tolkien pronounced his surname {{nowrap|{{IPA-en|ˈtɒlkiːn|}}}}, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in ''The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One.'' [Edited by] Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, [25 August] 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6) ISBN 0-04-440162-0. The position of the stress is not entirely fixed: stress on the second syllable ''(tol{{sc|kien}}'' rather than ''{{sc|tol}}kien)'' has been used by some members of the Tolkien family. In [[General American]] the surname is also pronounced {{nowrap|{{IPA|/ˈtoʊlkiːn/}}}}. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as ''toll'' and ''polka'', or because many General American speakers lack vowels of the [ɒ] and [ɔː] types; thus this becomes the closest possible approximation to the [[Received Pronunciation]] in their phonologies. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, ISBN 0582053838</ref> je olukowe, akoewi, [[Philology|onomo ewa-oro]], ati oluko yunifasiti, to gbajumo bi adakowe awon iwe asotan ''[[The Hobbit]]'', ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Alase awon Oruka]]'', ati ''[[The Silmarillion]]''.