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JRR Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings |
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JRR
Tolkien |
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1892
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Tolkien
graduated with a First in English Language and Literature
at Exeter College, Oxford.
In
1925 he was elected Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
at Oxford, where he worked with great skill and enthusiasm
for many years.
After
retirement, Tolkien and his wife lived in the Headington area
of Oxford.
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Tolkien's fantasy writing has achieved cult status.
The
Hobbit (1937), developed as a bedtime story for his children,
is about the adventures of a friendly gnome-like creature,
Bilbo Baggins, who has to destroy a dragon who menaces a rural
community.
The
Lord of the Rings (1954-5) has the same characters, again
engaged in a quest to destroy evil.
In
this more ambitious work, Tolkien created Middle Earth, a
long gone time with its own history and mythology.
He
also wrote The Silmarillion (1977).
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The Lord of the Rings, took twelve years to complete and was
not published until Tolkien was approaching retirement.
He
was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature from
1945-59.
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