Tolkien

Frison Elisa

(1892-1973)

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Short Stories

• Leaf by Niggle (1945)
• Farmer gales of Ham (1949)
• tree and Leaf (1964)

• The Hobbit or There and Back Again (1937)

• The Lord of the Rings series,

in order "The Fellowship of the Rings" (1954), "The Two Towers" (1954) "The Return of the King" (1955)

• The Silmarillion (posthumous in 1977)

His works

Edith died on 29 November 1971, at the age of 82. Tolkien was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1972 New Year Honours and received the insignia of the Order at Buckingham Palace on 28 March 1972. In the same year Oxford University gave him an honorary Doctorate of Letters. Tolkien died 21 months later on 2 September 1973 at the age of 81.

When he was 12, Tolkien's mother died, and he and his brother were made wards of a Catholic priest. In 1911 he went to Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied Classics, Old English, Germanic languages, Welsh, and Finnish. Tolkien enlisted in 1915 and was commissioned in the Lancashire Fusiliers, when he learned that he would be shipped out in March 1916, he married his longtime friend Edith Bratt. Tolkien was sent to the Western Front . After four months in and out of the trenches, he contracted a typhus-like infection and was sent back to England. After the war he bacame a professor at Pembroke College in Oxford, during this time he wrote "The Hobbit" and the first two volumes of "Lord of the Rings." In 1945, Tolkien move to Merton College, Oxford becaming professore in English Language and Literature until his retired in 1959.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, to English parents. At the age of three his mother brought him back to Birmingham, England.

Biography

Tolkien's anthology is full of important themes.Among the various themes we can find friendship, in particular the fellowship created to bring together members of different races. We have the theme of war and its evil, experienced by Tolkien during the First World War. We have the war on modernity and the preservation of nature, which we find in the battle in Isengard against the wizard Saruman. But an important element for Tolkien is his Catholic faith, which finds its place in The Lord of the Rings in the three figures of Frodo, Gandalf and Aragorn, the priest, the prophet and the king.

Themes

(A song in Elvish)

(Tolkien himself reading in Elvish)

The year of his death is an amusing coincidence. Tolkien died in 1973, in order these are the numbers of the rings in his work. "Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls od stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne (...)"

He Briefly Worked On the Oxford English Dictionary Tolkien's first civilian job after the war was at the Oxford English dictionary, where he started with research for the etymology of the words warm, wasp, water, wick, and winter.

J.R.R. Tolkien invented languages for fun. A philologist by trade, Tolkien kept his mind exercised by inventing new languages, many of which (like the Elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin) he used extensively in his writing. He even wrote songs and poems in his fictional languages.

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