On January, 3rd 1892 John Ronald Reuel was born in Bloemfontein South Africa. ( Celebrated Poets and Poems.com 1 ) Tolkien is really a Dutch name. ( Biography of J.R.R. Tolkien ( 1892-1973 ) 1 ) His Father died a twosome old ages after his birth from a febrility. When John was three he and his small brother Hilary moved to England to populate with their female parent. The household lived in Birmingham and they became spiritual. In order to go a Roman Catholic at the bend of the century in England you had to execute a radically antagonistic cultural act. They became Catholic. The three of them moved into a Catholic retreat house called the Birmingham Oratory because their female parent wanted them to hold a Catholic upbringing. The Catholics believed that they reach god through sermon, supplication, sacraments and through the beauty of the churches.

John began traveling to school, at foremost he attended King Edwards School for his younger old ages in Birmingham. After that school he went to Exeter College in Oxford in 1908. John studied the English linguistic communication and literature. In 1915 he was awarded First Class Honors Degree in English and literature. ( Celebrated Poets and Poems.com 1 ) He enjoyed larning about Anglo-Saxon and the Middle English and collected extended cognition on the topics. ( Fantasy Book Review 1 )

John went on vacation in Switzerland in 1911. John recollects the trip vividly in a 1968 missive. They went across the Kleine Scheidegg on to Grindelwald and across the Grosse Scheidegg to Meiringen. They continued across the Grimsel Pass and through the Upper Calais to brig, Switzerland, and on the Aletsch glacier and Zermatt. John says that he regrets go forthing the beautiful topographic point. ( New World Encyclopedia 3 )

After J.R.R graduated from school and the dark before his 21st birthday he sent a missive to Edith Bratt inquiring her to get married him. ( New World Encyclopedia 4 ) She said yes, and they got married March, 22 1916. ( New World Encyclopedia 3 ) Unlike his friends he waited a couple months to enlist in the ground forces to travel fight in the First World War. John enlisted in the ground forces in 1916 and shortly was sent to France. John served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 11th battalion of the 11th Lancashire fusiliers. He was at that place for about a twelvemonth when he developed trench febrility on October 27, 1916 he was discharged and returned to England on November 8, 1916. ( New World Encyclopedia 3 ) He was in a infirmary retrieving from his unwellness ; when he began composing He began to work on what he called The Book of Lost Tales, and the beginning of The Fall of Gondolin. ( New World Encyclopedia 3 ) Throughout 1917-1918 his unwellness kept reoccurring but he recovered plenty to make place service at assorted cantonments and was promoted to lieutenant. ( New World Encyclopedia 3 ) and he was allowed to continue and from place. He worked as an helper on the Oxford English Dictionary. “ By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead ” . ( Biography online 2 )

One twenty-four hours John went on a walk with his married woman Edith nearby Roos in the forests and she danced for him in a glade. This incident inspired the history of the meeting of Beren and Luthien, and they referred to eachother as those names, Edith was Johns Luthien as John was Edith ‘s Beren. ( New World Encyclopedia 4 )

In 1919 John took his M.A. In 1920 he took up a station as reader of the English linguistic communication at the University of Leads. In 1924 John was made a professor at that place. In 1925 he so returned to Oxford as a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford. ( New World Encyclopedia 4 )

John and Edith ‘s relationship was running smooth and Edith became pregnant with their first boy. They had four kids all together. Tolkien had three boies and one girl. John foremost told them the narrative of Mr. Bilbo Baggins an adventuresome hobbit who found himself holding the most surprising escapades. Since the narrative was such a favourite with his kids, he began to compose down the narrative around 1930. ( JRR Tolkien life 1 )

J.R.R. finished the book and it was published in 1937 by the publication house of George Allen and Unwin. ( Fantasy Book Review 1 ) The Printing Company wanted him to compose a subsequence so he began composing the Lord of the Rings. For the following 12 old ages Tolkien worked on this book. He easy added onto the book and about abandoned it twice. He was dedicated to the book and finished in 1949. The book was separated into three parts. The first two were published in 1954 and the 3rd in 1955. They were published in the U.S. in 1956. ( JRR Tolkien life 2 ) The Book Received assorted critical response, ( Fantasy Book Review 2 ) “ Like Lightning from a clear sky. ” ( C.S Lewis ) ( Fantasy Book Review 2 )

Tolkien was a terrific author of phantasy. He earned many wagess for his authorship. For his book the Hobbit he was awarded New York Herald Tribune Children ‘s Spring Book Festival award in 1938. He so wrote the Lord of the Rings, and in 1957 he was awarded the International Fantasy Award. For his last book, The Silmarillion, he received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1978 ( JRR Tolkien life 3 )

J.R.R Tolkien has many fans ; he was a figure of public attending and literary celebrity. He retired in 1959. He regrets non retiring earlier because his books were so profitable. He had so much attending from the populace that he had to alter his phone figure and take it out of the phone book and him and his married woman moved to Bournemouth at the south seashore. ( JRR Tolkien biography 4-5 )

Edith Tolkien died on November 29, 1971 at the age of 82. She was buried at Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford. He had the name Luthien engraved on her grave rock. Tolkien received the CBE and an Honorary Doctor’s degree of letters from the University of Oxford. Tolkien died 21 months after his married woman on September 2, 1973 at the age of 81. The cause of his decease was a bleeding ulcer and a chest infection. He was buried in the same grave as his married woman. And on his grave stone the name Beren was engraved. ( Tolkien, J.R.R. 4-5 )

Tolkien was awarded by the Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on March 28, 1972 the Order of the British Empire. His decoration was stolen from his hotel room that dark, and was subsequently returned anonymously. The stealer was ne’er identified.

Tolkien Wrote about nine books in his calling as a author including the Hobbit ( 1937 ) , Leaf by Niggle ( 1945 ) , Farmer Giles of Ham ( 1949 ) , The Fellowship of the Ring ( 1954 ) , The Two Towers ( 1954 ) , The Return of the King ( 1955 ) , The escapades of Tom Bombadil and other Poetries from the Red Book ( 1962 ) , Smith of Wotton Major ( 1967 ) , The Silmarillion ( 1977 ) , The Children of Hurin ( 2007 ) . He was so a poet and wrote many verse forms, J.R.R Tolkien Wrote near to one hundred verse forms in his trim clip between books.

J.R.R Tolkien was a terrific author and his books are classics, they will be about and remembered everlastingly.