![]() ![]() One day while grading essay papers he found himself writing In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit - and worldwide renown awaited him. Then suddenly his life changed dramatically. Lewis and the other writers known as The Inklings. After the war he returned to the academic life, achieving high repute as a scholar and university teacher, eventually bing Merton Professor of English at Oxford where he was a close friend of C.S. ![]() He served in the first World War, surviving the Battle of the Somme, where he lost many of the closest friends hed ever had. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was orphaned in childhood and brought up in near-poverty. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and be fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Book Synopsis The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. About the Book The author of The Brideshead Generation and The Inklings was given unrestricted access to all of Tolkiens papers for this biography of the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. ![]()
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