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   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 ...

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   From 1925-1945 J.R.R. Tolkien served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford. During this time he wrote The Hobbit and the majority of The Lord of the ...

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   The Tolkien Society is an educational charity, literary society and worldwide fan club devoted to promoting the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ...

6. www.britannica.com › biography › J-R-R-TolkienJ.R.R. Tolkien | Biography, Books, Movies, Middle-earth ...

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   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).

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   Tolkien, creator of the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, taught English Language at Merton College in Oxford. J.R.R. Tolkien is closely linked with Oxford and its University. Tolkien was in the midst of his English Literature studies at Oxford when World War I broke out. He was able to delay his enlistment until he had completed his degree, at ...

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   Where did Tolkien go to college?

   • In October 1925, he returned to Oxford as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, with a fellowship at Pembroke College. [ 67 ] During his time at Pembroke College, Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings, while living at 20 Northmoor Road in North Oxford.

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   What was Tolkien's academic life like?

   • Tolkien also served as a professor and was active in university politics and administration. Other than that, his academic life is generally considered largely unremarkable. The Inklings is one of Oxford’s most famous informal literary discussion groups.

   J. R. R. Tolkien at Oxford - Hobbits, the Inklings, and the University

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   When did Tolkien leave Merton College?

   • He then moved within the same university to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, and held these positions from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis, a co-member of the informal literary discussion group The Inklings.

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   Where did Tolkien grow up?

   • At age four Tolkien, with his mother and younger brother, settled near Birmingham, England, after his father, a bank manager, died in South Africa. In 1900 his mother converted to Roman Catholicism, a faith her elder son also practiced devoutly. On her death in 1904, her boys became wards of a Catholic priest.

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   Who was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien?

   • As an English language scholar, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) was and still is a noteworthy figure. “ Middle-earth “, the world he created, is the setting for both The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955), two of J.R.R. Tolkien’s best-known novels. Humans, elves, dwarves, trolls, goblins, orcs, and hobbits all resided there.

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   Did Tolkien have good grades?

   • According to the Tolkien Society, despite not having the finest grades, he never did as well as most other students in Oxford. Early in his university career, he began to study the classics, Old English, and Germanic languages as part of his undergraduate studies.

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9. www.tolkiensociety.org › discover › biographBiography – The Tolkien Society

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   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 ...