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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
born January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
The name "Tolkien" means reckless, risky, while the third name "Reuel" (which is also his father's middle name) means "friend of God."
When I lived in Africa during his childhood, was bitten by a tarantula, an event that would have repercussions later in the book he wrote, as the person who was caring and healthy DR.S. Thornton S. Quimby, who very much resembles one of his characters such as Gandalf the Grey
In 1895 he moved with his mother (Mabel) and her brother (Hilary) to England, while his father ( Arthur) would stay in Africa completing a business, but never came to England the following year and died of rheumatic fever.
This left the family without income so their mother took them to live with his family in Birmingham. Later that same year moved to Sarehole (Hall Green). John was gusrtaba explore the swamps of the place which then would be reflected in the landscapes of his work (such as his aunt's farm in the story would Bolson Closed) received
edn is a student, he was allowed to send him a letter declaring his love Edith and if he wanted to marry him, for which he received for an answer that was already compromised. She broke her engagement and married a Tolkien March 22, 1916 in Warwick
After graduating with honors, he joined the British Army then fighting in the First World War. As a second lieutenant was sent to France in 1916, until he fell ill due to the so-called trench fever on 27 October and 8 November he was transferred to England.
During his convalescence began work on what I call
Book of Lost Tales , beginning with the fall of GonDolin.
then was promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
Tolkien used to refer to his wife as his Lúthien, with whom he would have 4 children: John Francis Reuel
Michael Hilary Reuel Tolkien Christopher
Priscilla Anne Reuel
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first job was as a lexicographer in Oxford Dictionary
Inglés In 1920, non-tenured job as a teacher of English at the University of Leeds, where he reached the rank of professor. Here he met Eric Valentine Gordon, who posted so far is coinciderada the best edition of the anonymous work of Sir Garwain and the Green Knight, written in English.
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Between 1925 and 1945 working as a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, where he would write the Hobbit and the first 2 volumes lord of the rings
. It was CS Lewis who concencio he published The Hobbit
and during the years 1945 and 1959 as a professor of language and English literature.
Since his teens, Tolkien had started writing a series of myths and legends of Middle-earth then would start the Silmarillion, previously called "The Book of Lost Tales"
In 1965 came the first edition of Lord of the Rings in the USA
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