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J.R.R. Tolkien was a notable English philologist, writer, professor and scholar. This biography profiles his childhood, life, works, achievements, career and timeline.

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January, 1892 – 2 September, 1973), was a philologist and writer, best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. He worked as reader and professor in English language at the University of Leeds from 1920 to 1925; as professor of Anglo-Saxon language at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1945; and of English language and literature from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C.S. Lewis, and a member of the Inklings, a literary discussion group to which both Lewis and Owen Barfield belonged.

Personal Background John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 in South Africa, where his English father worked as a bank manager. His father died un

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J.R.R. Tolkien Biography - Philologist, author, mythmaker and creator of Middle Earth