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    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was one of the greatest and most profound authors of the twentieth century, his works include the notable The Hobbit and the famously acclaimed Lord of the Rings trilogy. Starting from his adolescence, J.R.R. Tolkien created amazing literary works and drew intricate illustrations. In school, Tolkien prospered especially when it came to his broad knowledge of languages. He showed a remarkable ability early on for Latin and Greek and moved on to learn many other languages

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    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was well known, internationally as a fantasy writer. He was born in South Africa on January 3, 1892. He lived with both his mother and his father. His father was a bank manager but passed away unexpectedly when Tolkien was four years old due to complications from rheumatic fever, an inflammatory disease that develops from inadequately treated scarlet fever or strep throat (cite), both being common back in that time period. Ronald (as everyone called him) was visiting family

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    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892. He was a major scholar of the English language regarding Old and Middle English. Tolkien was the professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, and he also wrote stories, including “The Hobbit” (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955); the setting is in a prehistorical time in his inventive world called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth (Doughan). This was lived by Men and Women, Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs

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    January 3, 1890 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born. John live in south africa for three years. His family left South Africa and went back to England after John’s father died and John did not have much memory of his father. He had a happy childhood.When John was 12, his mother died from diabetes. Soon after his mother died he was taken to foster care. In foster care he was brought up by the Catholic family. While he was in high school, John was falling in love with his childhood sweetheart. When his

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    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known by his pen name J.R.R. Tolkien, came from a family that was primarily craftsmen that had emigrated to England from Germany in the 18th century. John was born on January 3rd, 1892 to father Arthur Tolkien and mother Mabel Tolkien in Bloemfontein, South Africa. His family had moved there after his father was promoted to head of the Bloemfontein office of the British bank. John had one sibling, his younger brother, Hilary Arthur Reuel. At age three John, Hilary

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    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He then went to England as a child to study at Exeter College. He started teaching at Oxford university and there is where he started writing The hobbit and Lord of the rings and later on published it. Tolkien at his young age joined the University of Leeds in 1920, and then some years later started teaching in the Oxford University. There he started a writing group called “The Inklings”

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    literature to delineate of the dismal satire of love. Be it love for another person; for satisfaction; or one’s aptitude and self-fortitude, this stimulus can motivate one to achieve even the most insurmountable of things. For instance, in John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s

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    most famous authors in British history, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was not even born in England or Europe at all. In fact, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, which is now a republic of South America. J.R.R. Tolkien was born on January 3, 1982. J.R.R. Tolkien was a very famous writer, poet, and even an English professor who was best known for his works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. When J.R.R. Tolkien was at a young age, there were many things that he

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    Essay on Tolkien: A Racist, Sexist, or Not?

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    There is no doubt that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an exceptional writer. Today, he is considered the father of modern fantasy literature. However, he did not start off as this extraordinary writer; rather, Tolkien worked his way up until he attained this status. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3rd of 1892 in a South African province. At an early age, his mother, Mabel, took him and his younger brother, Hilary, on a family visit to England; however, before his father, Arthur,

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    JRR Tolkien

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    JRR Tolkien, commonly credited as the ‘father of fantasy’, has developed a unique and individualistic plot set in middle earth-a land of elves, fairies and all that is mystical. Tolkien, a linguist and professor, used literature to create various parallels between his life and the events in his novels. J.R.R Tolkien was inspired by World War I British society, his education, and Roman Catholicism when writing his fantasy novels, such as The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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