1. His full name was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
2. He was born on 3rd January, in 1892, in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa.
3. He died on 2nd September, in 1973, in Oxford, England.
4. He had a younger brother, Hilary Arthur Reuel Tolkien.
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5. At college, he was a member of the T.C.B.S (the Tea Club and Barrovian Society). Many of the members had a fondness for drinking tea by the school, and in the school library..6
His father, Arthur Reuel Tolkien, was an English bank manager who died of rheumatic fever.
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After Tolkien’s death, his son Christopher published many of his father’s works and manuscripts, including The Silmarillion (1977).
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