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J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL ( / ˈruːl ˈtɒlkiːn /, ROOL TOL-keen; [a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings .
May 9, 2024 · J.R.R. Tolkien (born January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa—died September 2, 1973, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England) was an English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children’s book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
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Family ancestry
1. See also: Tolkien Family Many of Tolkien's paternal ancestors were craftsmen. According to Tolkien's own understanding, the Tolkien family had its roots in Saxony (present-day Germany), but had been living in England since the 18th century, becoming "quickly and intensely English (not British)". Tolkien believed that the Tolkien is the anglicised form of Tollkiehn (i.e. German: tollkühn, "foolhardy", the etymological English calque would be "dull-keen", a literal translation of "oxymoron")...
Childhood
Tolkien was born on 3 January, 1892, in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (now the Free State province of South Africa) to Arthur Reuel Tolkien (1857 – 1896), an English bank manager, and his wife Mabel, née Suffield (1870 – 1904). Tolkien had one sibling, his younger brother, Hilary Arthur Reuel, who was born on 17 February, 1894. He was addressed by his family as “Ronald” as it has no history of use in the Tolkien family. While living in Africa he was bitten by a large 'baboon spider',...
Youth
Tolkien met and fell in love with Edith Mary Bratt, three years his senior, at the age of sixteen. Father Francis forbade him from meeting, talking, or even corresponding with her until he was twenty-one. He obeyed this prohibition to the letter. In 1911, while they were at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Tolkien and three friends, Robert Gilson, Geoffrey Bache Smith and Christopher Wiseman, formed a semi-secret society which they called "the T.C.B.S.", the initials standing for "Tea Club a...
The early images of J.R.R. Tolkien in school and university show a serious young man, average height, slender, clean-shaven, and with his hair parted in the middle. At school he was considered too light for the rugby team, and in order to join he tried to make it up with ferocity during the game, and eventually he was accepted. By 1916Tolkien had j...
Beginning with The Book of Lost Tales, written while recuperating from illness during World War I, Tolkien devised several themes that were reused in successive drafts of his legendarium. The two most prominent stories, the tales of Beren and Lúthien and that of Túrin, were carried forward into long narrative poems (published in The Lays of Beleria...
Both Tolkien's academic career and his literary production are inseparable from his love of language and philology. His mother taught him the rudiments of Latinvery early. He could read by the age of four, and could write fluently soon afterwards. In the early 1900s he was introduced to a secret "code" created by his Incledon cousins, called Animal...
In a 1951 letter to Milton Waldman, Tolkien writes about his intentions to create a "body of more or less connected legend", of which: The hands and minds of many artists have indeed been inspired by Tolkien's legends. Personally known to him were Pauline Baynes (Tolkien's favourite illustrator of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Farmer Giles of ...
This list contains awards or recognitions given to J.R.R. Tolkien, it does not include awards given to his individual publications. 1. D. Lit., in University College, Dublin (1954) 2. Commander of Order of the British Empire (1972) 3. Doctorate of Letters by Oxford University (1972) 4. 6th "best postwar British writer" (The Times, 2008) One year af...
In a letter to written by Arthur Tolkien to his family after Tolkien's birth he describes the inspiration behind Tolkien's name: 1. Luttro - Esperanto word for "otter", possibly referring to himself, in his private Book of the Foxrook (1909); possibly an allusion to Animalic 2. Arcastar - Quenya rention of Tolkien used in Tolkien in Oxford, of uncl...
A small selection of books about Tolkien and his works: 1. Anderson, Douglas A., Michael D. C. Drout and Verlyn Flieger (founder eds.). Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 2. Carpenter, Humphrey (1979). The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends ISBN 0395276284 3. Chance, Jane (ed.) (2003). Tolkien the Medi...
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Feb 5, 2024 · Learn about the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, who was a scholar of Old and Middle English and a devout Catholic. Discover his childhood in South Africa and Birmingham, his linguistic and literary achievements, his marriage to Edith Bratt, and his legacy.
Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the renowned fantasy author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Find out how he created his fictional world, languages and characters, and how his books were adapted into films and TV series.
The Lord of the Rings is an epic [1] high fantasy novel [a] by the English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work.
Learn about the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Explore his early years, academic career, languages, myths, and legacy.
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