Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien: A Christian Encounter

J.R.R Tolkien Biography Book Report

J.R.R Tolkien is the biography of J.R.R Tolkien. It was written by Mark Horne and is part of the Christian encounters series. It was written to cover the life of the God fearing author J.R.R Tolkien. It covers his childhood and his education, his life during World War 1, while he was a professor, and his literature and how it was formed. This book covers Tolkien’s life extremely well and exposed a part of him that few people know.

J.R.R Tolkien was born on January 3rd 1892 in Bloemfontein South Africa. However he only lived there for 3 years.. When Tolkien was young he was bit by a Tarantula, although he has denied that it had any effect on his writings it is widely believed that the spider that bit him helped shape the Mirkwood spiders, and Shelab in his books The Hobbit, and his series The Lord Of the Rings. When Tolkien's father passed away his family moved back to England. The beautiful

He is most well known for his book The Hobbit, and his series The Lord Of The Rings. Both of which are famous all over the world due to his majestic writing and his literary skills. Both stories follow Hobbits. Although they are just a figment of his imagination everyone found their ways into our hearts. It is very interesting to see how the war affected his writing. J.R.R Tolkien was never impressed by higher ranking officers, no matter how many honors they had. However he felt great respect to the privates and the lower class of soldiers, even though due to the strict class separation he was not allowed to associate with them. You see in the Lord Of The Rings that the servant Sam Gamgee is really the hero. Tolkien used Sam and Boremeir to show that the smallest can make the biggest difference, and the biggest soldier will fall the hardest. J.R.R Tolkien was a literary mastermind and a legend. His name will be carried on by the