J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", & "The Silmarillion", was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University.
Terence Graham Parry Jones was a writer for such BBC programs as The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set, before joining with Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin to form the Monty Python comedy troupe. Best remembered as the nude organist, Jones co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and directed Life of Brian (1979) and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983). Along with many Python-related books, screenplays, and records, Jones has written the historical study Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary (1980). He also wrote numerous children's books, including The Curse of the Vampire Socks (1988), a book of children's poetry, and… Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells: Quentin Cottington's Journal of Faery Research (1996).