j.r.r. tolkien

     

John Ronal Reuel Tolkien, CBE (IPA: /ˈtoʊl.kiːn/) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Trivia about j.r.r. tolkien

  • "The Road to Middle-Earth" is a book about this writer
  • After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003
  • "Never laugh at live dragons", warned this author in "The Hobbit" -- good advice
  • While grading school papers, he came up with the line "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"
  • This author of "The Lord of the Rings" was born in South Africa & brought to England at age 4
  • In 1917 he began "The Silmarillion", a history of Middle Earth before the Hobbits appeared
  • "The Two Towers"(1954, book 2 of a trilogy)
  • A little hobbit told us this author was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa in 1892
  • Bilbo Baggins
  • "The Silmarillion", his prequel to "Lord of the Rings", was published after his death
  • This British author's 2 middle names are Ronald Reuel
  • His "Silmarillion", a prequel to "The Lord of the Rings", was published posthumously in 1977
  • 1937:Middle-earth
  • This "Lord of the Rings" author served as Merton professor of English at Oxford from 1945 to 1959
  • Edited by his son Christopher, "The Children of Hurin" is a tale of Middle-Earth's First Age by this man
  • His middle names were Ronald Reuel

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