John Ronald Ruel Tolkien, or better known as J.R.R. Tolkien, great writer, poet, philologist, and beloved university professor. Author of the Hobbits and Lord of the Ring series, and The Silmarillion. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa to Arthur Reuel Tolkien, and his wife Mabel née Suffield . Tolkien had one sibling, his younger brother, Hilary Tolkien, born on February 17, 1894.
When he was three years old, the boys and their mother took a lengthy trip to England while his father was on a hunting trip in South Africa. But his father died of rheumatic fever before he could join them. He left Mabel a widow and John and Hilary orphaned.
After their father’s death, they moved in with Mabel’s family members in England. John loved exploring the various towns where they moved. Many of his inspirations for his book came from his explorations of his childhood. His famous “Bag End” from the Lord of the Rings series was based on his aunts farm.
Mabel Tolkien taught her Children in the home. Young Tolkien enjoyed drawing landscapes and studying botany, but his favorite lesson was language.
His mother taught the boys Latin at a very early age . Both the boys were very intelligent. John could read by the age of four and could write fluently soon afterwards. He was also an avid reader. He liked the fantasy works of George MacDonald, and the "Fairy Books" of Andrew Lang greatly influenced his writings later in his life. Mabel Tolkien converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1900 despite adamant protests by her Baptist family, who then stopped all financial assistance to her and the boys.
In 1904, Mabel died of acute diabetes, John was twelve. Mabel Suffield Tolkien lies buried in St. ...
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... Wiesman and Robert Gilson were killed in the war. While he was recovering back in England, he used his war experience as an inspiration and wrote the “Fall of Gondolin” and the “Book of Lost Tales”. Because his illness kept returning he was unable to serve away from home, but he did what he could in England. He served at camps helping in any way he could.
He was stationed at Kingston. Edith went walking with him one afternoon and it was in a hemlock grove that he got the inspiration for his characters Beren and Lúthien in the Lord of the Ring series. He often called Edith his Lúthien.
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He was raised in Birmingham, England in a poor Roman Catholic family. Tolkien had fought in World War l (1916). After the war, he became a professor of English at Oxford (1925-1959). When his children were young, he would tell them tales about an imaginary place called “Middle-Earth”. Oxford urged him to write these tales down and he did. He published the first ones in 1954-1955 and made a very successful series.
J.R.R. Tolkien was Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa on January 2, 1892 and died on September 3, 1973. (St. James 558) He delighted and titillated readers of all ages by first introducing them to the middle-earth in The Hobbit, a story of Frodo's cousin Bilbo. The story detailed his mythical journey in which he was accompanied by wizards and elves in search of rumored treasures. The One Ring that plays a major role in The Fellowship of the Ring was the fruit of Bilbo's struggles in The Hobbit. Although The Hobbit was a large success...
According to The return of The Kings, “known as The Lord of the Rings, was so immediately successful that a new, larger printing was required, and soon another, still larger printing became necessary. The Hobbit, under wartime pressure of paper shortages, went out of print in 1942, and its subsequent popularity largely derives from the success of The Lord of the Rings” (Kroeber). According to The return of The Kings, The Lord of The rings was successful because people read it and liked it. JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN (always called Ronald by his family) was born on 3 January 1892, at Bloemfontein, South Africa, where his father Arthur had taken a position with the Bank of Africa (Firchow). The Tolkien family had been prosperous piano manufacturers, but the business had failed. Mabel Suffield, Arthur’s wife, was the daughter of a once successful drapery manufacturer in Birmingham, England, who had gone bankrupt and survived by selling disinfectant to shopkeepers around the city. According to the Background, Sauron always sought pleasure in whoever has interest in the ring and whoever had possession of the ring was called the ring Barer. Sauron is a giant eyeball sitting on top of a tower. From there, he watches every move anyone takes but he is mainly looking for the ring bearer. Once Sauron finally obtained possession of the ring, he then transformed into his omnipotent transformation meaning he makes all that is afraid of fear, fear him. He was then so powerful to the point that no man can defeat him only women. The first of Tolkien’s four children was born in November 1917. After the Armistice Tolkien joined the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary, and in 1920 he was appointed Reader in English Language at Leeds University, whe...
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He studied at Oxford pursuing a degree in English language and literature. This later gave him the thought of creating his own imagined world known as Middle-Earth. He then later married Edith Bratt, had four children, and became a professor at Oxford. The Hobbit, first published in 1937, had some of Tolkien’s invented language and mythology. The plot and character’s of The Hobbit combined the ancient heroic Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian epics, which he studied at Oxford. The Hobbit “is immersed in folk tradition” (Matthews). The character Bilbo Baggins was inspired by the rural Englishman of the 1930s. Tolkien was inspired by ancient European myths leading him to write Lord of the Rings, a prequel to The Hobbit. On September 2,1973, J.R.R. Tolkien died at the age of eighty-one.
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