J R R TOLKIEN

BIOGRAPHY
 Little description
 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, often
referred to as JRR Tolkien or JRRT,
was a British writer, poet, philologist,
linguist, and university professor, best
known for being the author of the
classic heroic fantasy novels The
Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
 Childhood
John Ronald Reuel was born in Bloemfontein,
capital of the Orange Free State, on the night
of Sunday, January 3, 1892.
His parents were Arthur Tolkien and Mabel
Suffield, both from the United Kingdom.
The boy was baptized on January 31 in
Bloemfontein Cathedral
 Maturity
Tolkien's first civilian post-war job was as an
editorial assistant lexicographer for the first
edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
He worked for two years primarily on the history
and etymology of words of Germanic origin
beginning with the letter W.
he held the position of non-tenured professor of
English Language at the University of Leeds
 Maturity
He reached the position of professor,
reforming the teaching of English with his
teaching discipline
he published what is considered the best
edition to date of the Alliterative Revival's
anonymous work.
 In 1925, he returned to Oxford as Professor of
Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College
 Maturity
during his stay in Pembroke that Tolkien wrote
The Hobbit and the first two volumes of The
Lord of the Rings
In 1937 CS Lewis persuaded him to publish
The Hobbit, originally written for his children.
 Death
Tolkien returned to Oxford, where he died on
September 2, 1973, at the age of 81.
Was buried in the same grave as his wife.
This grave, located in the Wolvercote
cemetery, in Oxford, presents the names
"Beren" and "Lúthien" for Ronald and Edith.
 Most relevant works
The Silmarillion:
Tolkien wrote a short outline of his
mythology of which the tales of Beren
and Lúthien and that of Túrin were a
part, and that outline evolved into the
Quenta Silmarillion, an epic story.
 Most relevant works
The Hobbit:
This book tells the adventures of the hobbit
Bilbo Baggins who, together with the magician
Gandalf and a company of dwarves, will be
involved in a journey to recover the kingdom
of Erebor, snatched from the dwarves by the
dragon Smaug.
He had written in 1932 for his own children
 Most relevant works
The Lord of the rings:
 A sequel to The Hobbit prompted Tolkien
to begin what would become his most
famous work.
An epic fantasy novel divided into three
volumes and published between 1954 and
1955
 Most relevant works
The Lord of the rings:
 He remembered the ring found by Bilbo
Baggins and decided to center the story
around him and its evolution, becoming a
darker and more serious writing; therefore,
despite being a direct continuation of The
Hobbit, it was aimed at a more mature
audience.