J. R. R. TOLKIEN


J. R. R. Tolkien is best know as the author of the Hobbit and the Lord Of The Rings.He was born on January 3rd, 1892 in Bloemfontein, Orange free state (south Africa)to Arthur Reuel Tolkien,a bank manager, and Mabel Suffield Tolkien.His father had taken a bank management promotion which reqired him and his wife to leave England. They settled in Bloemfontein where J. R. R. Tolkien was born.His younger brother Hilary Arthur Reuel Tolkien was born two years later.At the age of three he his brother and his mother returned to England.His father died before joining them, of Rheumatic fever.Mabel taught the boys at home and J.R.R Tolkien was writing at the age of four. He attended Eceter College Oxford studying English Literature, graduating in 1915.

These are the some of the books he wrote.