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J. R. R. Tolkien's Impact On The World

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J.R.R Tolkien is one of the biggest names of authors known today. He has written many books, but is known mostly for the lord of the rings books and the Silmarillion. Born on January 3 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. His parents were both English but met in Africa and lived there until his father past. Him his younger brother and his mom moved back to England, but then his mom was diagnosed with diabetes and died a little more than eight years than his dad. A father of a catholic church named Father Francis took Tolkien in and this is when he started showing his writing skills. When he was sixteen he met a nineteen year old girl named Edith Bratt who he started to date. He then started going to school at Exeter College, Oxford in 1911 where he studied old English and different languages. He then changed his school from Classics to the friendlier English Language and Literature. When World War 1 came Tolkien stayed at oxford and got a first class degree, and then he joined the military. Right before he left he married Edith in 1916. He then served in the western front for a couple of months then got trench fever so he was sent back to England. Due to the war he started writing stories, …show more content…

When people think of great authors they think of people like Lewis, Dickens, Rowling, and Tolkien. Everybody knows him and his books, and know that they are some of the most famous books and series on the planet. The quote above is one of the most well-known poems from his books. The poem is in the book twice in The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring. It appears in Chapter Ten, "Strider", in Gandalf's letter to Frodo Baggins in Bree, before they know that Aragorn is the topic of the verse, and it’s repeated by Bilbo at the Council of Elrond. He tells Frodo that he wrote it many years ago, when Aragorn first revealed who he

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