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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on 3 January 1892(1892-01-03) in
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa and died on 2
September 1973 (aged 81)Bournemouth, England. His nationality is
recorded as being British but he was in fact South African-born who
relocated to Britain.
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa and died on 2
September 1973 (aged 81)Bournemouth, England. His nationality is
recorded as being British but he was in fact South African-born who
relocated to Britain.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was a
writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of
the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford from
1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature from
1945 to 1959. He was a close friend of C. S. Lewis – they were both members of
the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was
appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth
II on 28 March 1972.
After his death, Tolkien's son, Christopher, published a series of works based on
his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The
Silmarillion. These, in addition to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a
connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and
literary essays about an imagined and fantasy world called Arda, and Middle-
earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955 Tolkien applied the word legendarium
to the larger part of these writings.
While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the
great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings when they were
published in paperback in the United States resulted in the re-birth of the
popularity of this genre of novel. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly
identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature—or more precisely, high
fantasy.
Tolkien's writings have inspired many other works of fantasy and have had a
lasting effect on the entire field. In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of
'The 50 greatest British writers since 1945'. Again I stress that Tolkien was in fact
a South African born writer and poet and acquired British citzenship after his
birth.
writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of
the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford from
1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature from
1945 to 1959. He was a close friend of C. S. Lewis – they were both members of
the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was
appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth
II on 28 March 1972.
After his death, Tolkien's son, Christopher, published a series of works based on
his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The
Silmarillion. These, in addition to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a
connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and
literary essays about an imagined and fantasy world called Arda, and Middle-
earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955 Tolkien applied the word legendarium
to the larger part of these writings.
While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the
great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings when they were
published in paperback in the United States resulted in the re-birth of the
popularity of this genre of novel. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly
identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature—or more precisely, high
fantasy.
Tolkien's writings have inspired many other works of fantasy and have had a
lasting effect on the entire field. In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of
'The 50 greatest British writers since 1945'. Again I stress that Tolkien was in fact
a South African born writer and poet and acquired British citzenship after his
birth.
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