J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892September 2, 1973) was the author of The
Hobbitand its sequel The Lord of the Rings, his most famous work.
A former pupil of King Edward's School, Birmingham, he worked as Professor of Anglo-Saxon at
the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1945, and as Professor of English Language and
Literature, also at Oxford, from 1945 to 1959.
He was an eminently distinguished lexicographer and an expert in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse.
He belonged to the literary discussion group the Inklings, through which he enjoyed a close
friendship with C. S. Lewis.
In addition to the The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's published fiction includes a
number of posthumous books about the history of the imaginary world of Middle-earth, where
his stories take place.