1. “You believe in For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s peerless fantasy has accumulated English writer, scholar and philologist,
Tolkien’s fertile imagination to write about
worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.
everything” No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete
‘the Shire’ and ‘hobbits’ in his later book the
Hobbit (1937). Tolkien was educated at King
Edward VI school in Birmingham. He studied
- Washington Post with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has J.R.R linguistics at Exeter College, Oxford, and
TOLKIEN took his B.A. in 1915. From 1915 to 1918
created characters as endearing as Tolkien’s large-hearted, hairy-footed
he fought in World War I with the Lancashire
hobbits. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations Fusiliers. It is believed that his experiences
“Mr.Tolkien has of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is
during the Battle of Jutland may have been
succeeded superbly”
fueled the darker side of his subsequent
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
designed to appeal to the youngest of them. novels. Upon his return he worked as an
assistant on the Oxford English Dictionary
- New York Times In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and
(1918-20) and took his M.A. in 1919. In
1920 he became a teacher in English at
the University of Leeds. He then went on to
Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power Merton College in Oxford, where he became
“Tolkien’s incredible so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-
achievement has though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .
Saxon (1925-45) and Merton professor of
had a deep and English Language and Literature (1945-59).
His first scholarly publication was an edition
lasting impact” of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1925).
He also wrote books on Chaucer (1934) and
Beowulf (1937). In 1939 Tolkien gave the
-Rolling Stone Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St.
Andrews in Scotland titled: “On Fairy-Stories”.
Tolkien will however be remembered most for
his books the Hobbit (1937) and the Lord of
“Literately classic” the Rings (1954-55). The Hobbit began as a
bedtime story for his children that in his own
words “grew in the telling”. He wrote Lord
- The Boston Globe of the Rings over a period of about 14 years
“Not which started by him sending his children bits
and pieces of the story in his letters.
all those
who wander
are lost”
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