John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of
The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets.
Tolkien’s most popular works,
The Hobbit a…
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