J.RR Tolkien was a famous author. He is mostly known for writing the lord of the rings and the hobbit. These books were later adapted into films that are well recognised all around the world.
J.RR Tolkien grew up in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham. J.RR and his family lived on the side of genteel poverty. J.RR Tolkien was bullied as a child when he went to a private school by some rich kids. Tolkien was very creative.
Young Tolkien liked to draw landscapes and trees but his favourite lessons were those concerning languages and his mother taught him the rudiments of Latin very early. Tolkien could read at the age of four and could write fluently soon afterwards. His mother allowed him to read as many book as he wanted.
By the age of nine Tolkien had lost both his parents his father died of a rheumatic fever in 1896 and his mother was dying of diabetes. 22nd march 1916 J.RR Had found himself a wife Edith Mary Bratt. Edith Mary Bratt had converted to Catholicism to mary him. Tolkien was smart he could speak many languages of which are English, Spanish, French, old English, Latin, German, Welsh, Greek, Dutch, Russian, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Middle English, old Norse, Gothic and old Iceland.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was his real name. He was an English writer and physiologist. He was an author of high fantasy works. The hobbit at the Lord of the rings was written by him. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rewlinson and brosworth professor of Anglo Saxon and a fellow of Pembroke college, both at the University of Oxford. He then moved within the same university to become the Merton professor of English language and literature and fellow of Merton College, and hold these positions from 1945 units his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C.S Lewis a co-member informal literacy discussion group. He was appointed a commander of the order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28th of March 1972.
After Tolkien’s death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father’s extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including the Silmarillion. These, together with the tales, poems, fictional histories Invented languages’s and literacy essays about a fantasy world called arda and, within it middle earth. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legend atrium to the larger parts of these writings.
In conclusion J.RR Tolkien had an accomplished career even though his works became famous after he died. His books were given awards.
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