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    J. R. R. TolkienBritish writer and philologist
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    J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia

    • John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He then moved within the same university to becom… See more

    Biography

    Tolkien was English, and thought of himself as such. His immediate paternal ancestors were middle-class craftsmen … See more

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    Tolkien's Catholicism was a significant factor in C. S. Lewis's conversion from atheism to Christianity. He once wrote to Rayner Unwin's daughter Camilla, who wished to know the purpose of life, that it was "to increase according t… See more

    BornJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien · 3 January 1892 · Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now South Africa)
    Died2 September 1973 (aged 81) · Bournemouth (then in Hampshire), England
    CitizenshipBritish
    EducationKing Edward's School, Birmingham · Exeter College, Oxford
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    Writing

    Tolkien's fantasy books on Middle-earth, especially The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, drew on a wide array of influences, including his philological interest in language, Christianity, medievalism, mythology… See more

    Languages and philology

    Both Tolkien's academic career and his literary production are inseparable from his love of language and philology. He specialized in English philology at university and in 1915 graduated with Old Norse as his special sub… See more

    Artwork

    Tolkien learnt to paint and draw as a child and continued to do so all his adult life. From early in his writing career, the development of his stories was accompanied by drawings and paintings, especially … See more

    Legacy

    While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence and the shaping of the modern fantasy genre. Thi… See more

    Memorials

    Tolkien and the characters and places from his works have become eponyms of many real-world objects. These include geographical features on Titan (Saturn's largest moon), street names such as There and Back A… See more

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