Search results
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (/ ˈruːl ˈtɒlkiːn /, [a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both ...
Nov 1, 2024 · J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children’s book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). His writing continued to be published after his death, including The Silmarillion (1977) and The History of Middle-earth (1983–96).
Feb 5, 2024 · John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955), which are set in a pre ...
Following the war, Tolkien returned to Oxford and worked on a new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Tolkien taught at Leeds University after the Great War. In 1925, he became Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College. In 1945, Tolkien became Merton Professor of English Language and Literature where he served until his retirement in 1959.
Tolkien graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1915 with first-class honors in English language and literature. On the academic front, Tolkien never “took a PhD.” as we now sometimes say – he was too busy working professionally on the kind of stuff people normally do PhDs on – but he was awarded a Doctorate of Letters (D. Litt.) and Philosophy by the
Sep 15, 2023 · John Ronald Reuel Tolkien aka J.R.R. Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on the 3rd, January 1892, to English parents. By age 3, Tolkien, his younger brother Hilary and their mother relocated back to England leaving their father who died soon after in South Africa. With the death of the patriarch, the family stayed in England in a ...
People also ask
Where did Tolkien go to college?
Where did JJ Tolkien study English?
When did Tolkien leave Merton College?
Where did Tolkien live in 1896?
Where did Tolkien grow up?
Where did Tolkien & Hilary live?
Early Life. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, to English parents. At the age of three his mother brought him and his younger brother, Hilary, back to England. tolkien's father died soon afterwards in South Africa, so the family stayed in England and by the summer of 1896 his mother found them ...
