Biography
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Life and Legacy
John Ronald Reuel 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). He was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa and died on September 2, 1973, in Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.
Age, Marriage, Career Net worth And More…
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien was a major scholar of the English language, specializing in Old and Middle English. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1925 to 1945 and of English studies there from 1945 to 1959.
Tolkien’s works have been translated into over 50 languages1. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.
The Tolkien family is an English family of German descent whose best-known member is J. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien eventually married Edith, and the two had four children: John Francis, Michael Hilary (named after Tolkien’s brother Hilary), Christopher John, and Priscilla Mary Anne.
