JRR Tolkien: Long Forgotten Medieval Times

J.R.R. Tolkien’s love of languages, religion, and country had great influence over his work. J.R.R. Tolkien’s love of languages influenced

Tolkien lived in his own apartment in Birmingham at the age of sixteen. He went about his studies normally until the day Tolkien met the one person with the most influence on him in his entire life: Edith Bratt. Edith was nineteen at the time when Tolkien was sixteen; they would talk for hours leaning out the windows of their apartments and have informal dates in coffee shops where they would make a game of throwing sugar cubes into the large hats worn by the women of the time(25 Horne).

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known as J.R.R. Tolkien, was born on January third 1892 in Bloemfontein South Africa and was the son of Arthur and Mabel Suffield Tolkien. After his father's death in 1896 Tolkien's mother moved herself and her two children, J.R.R (at the time called Ronald) and his younger brother Hilary to Sarehole near Birmingham. When Tolkien was twelve his mother died and he and his brother were sent to live with one of their relatives when a Catholic priest became their legal guardian. (biography.com J.R.R. Tolkien Linguist and Author) At the onset of World War 1 Tolkien did not immediately rush to join the war. He instead remained at Oxford and received his degree in 1915. During the time leading up to his

     Life for young Tolkien was very hard on him after his mother, Mabel passed away on October 15th, 1904 after succumbing to diabetes. Tolkien was only twelve years old. (Walter Tompkins, Great)

J.R.R Tolkien was born on January 3rd 1892 and died on September the 2nd 1973. He was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, but settled in England as a child at four years old after his father, Arthur died. His father, before John was a bank clerk that moved to South Africa

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien came into the world on January 3, 1892 in Cape Town, South Africa. His father, Arthur Tolkien, worked at The Bank Of Africa, but died tragically when he was only four years old. Mabel Tolkien, having already returned to England for the sake of her child’s health, raised her children on the small investments her husband had left her and the occasional generosity of relatives. He attended King Edward’s School for the majority of his youth, and from an early age showed a proficiency for languages. Upon Ronald’s mothers’ death just before his thirteenth birthday, he and his brother Hilary were taken in by Father Francis Morgan of

J.R.R. Tolkien's books and short stories created a large following and also showed new ideas and ways to connect with other

, www.jstor.org/stable/40066567. Carpenter, Humphrey. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography. HarperCollins, 2002. Carpenter, Humphrey. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. 2006.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s early life was a little rough but he made the best out of it. Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa (Birzer 1). It may seem odd as to how he was born in South Africa, but there’s a story behind it. Bradley Birzer explained in his article “Tolkien: Man Behind the Myth” on EBSCOhost that,”Attempting to control the fraud that seemed

J. R. R. Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known by his books The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. He taught at the University of Oxford. Tolkien was bilingual, he spoke Greek, Latin, French, German, Middle English, Old English, Finnish, Gothic, Italian, Old Norse, Spanish, Welsh, and Medieval Welsh. His fascination with languages and his imagination led him to creating his own languages; Elvish, Dwarvish, Entish, and Black Speech. His books are so well known and loved by so many people. They help people see differently about life and how we should be spending the little time that we have to the fullest. At a young age Tolkien lost his father and then few years later

Tolkien carries this idea of the

Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien was inspired of making of “The Shire”(the setting in “The Hobbit”) by his home in the hamlet Sarehole, in Birmingham,in England. J.R.R Tolkien was also partially inspired by european myths of elves,dwarves,dragons,and trolls. J.R.R Tolkien “The Hobbit” had become an award winning book but J.R.R Tolkien's “The Lord of the Rings” series, a prequel to “The Hobbit”, was attracting many readers to come Tolkien's world that made it a global best-seller. “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” were adapted into 6 block-buster films directed by Peter

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa in 1892.Tolkien doesn’t remember hardly anything of his time when he was in Africa. He then moved to England to live with his mother and his brother.

"Three Rings for the Eleven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his Dark throne, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie(Tolkien)." Master of storytelling J.R.R. Tolkien continues the lives of the fictitious creatures that he introduced in The Hobbit, in his modern classic The Fellowship of the Ring. He artfully illustrates the truths of the evil that plague the hearts of man. He tells a story of greed, destruction and how mortal men are enslaved by

After reading one of his books, at age 8, I knew Roald Dahl was a great author and that I could learn a lot from him. Roald Dahl is one of my favorite authors and I have read most of his books. He was born September 13, 1916 in Llandaff, Cardiff, United Kingdom. When Roald Dahl went to his first school he and his friends always went to a sweet shop on the way there and back. The shop was owned by a gross, old woman. The boys found a dead mouse and they put it in one of the candy jars. They got caught the next day and for the first and not the last time, they were whipped by a cane. In world war 2 Roald Dahl flew as a RAF. He injured his spine after a forced landing. Roald Dahl began writing as a child, but he published his first