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J.R.R. Tolkien
So, I already suggest these books to my library and to our schools. Having this book available is a great asset for children everywhere.
Beyond children though, I love reading these as an adult. I always learn things about a person I did not know before. J.R.R. Tolkien was born in South Africa. He had a twin brother who died. He moved at just 3 to England, after his father dies. His mother always read to him and sparked his imagination and love of books. Sadly, she died when he was a child. He went to live at King Edward’s School and found three special friends who also loved books, poems, and stories. They invented a Secret Society and J.R.R. Tolkien continued
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J.R.R Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien, the well-loved author of books such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, is best known as a British professor at Oxford University. His books were first published in England, his fandom first started in England...but the story of Professor Tolkien himself does not even start on that continent.
1888, England - Arthur Reuel Tolkien was thirty-one years old, and he had just proposed marriage to a girl just turned eighteen: Mabel Suffield. She accepted, but her father, John Suffield, was not so pleased. Mabel was too young to be married, and the couple's engagement was postponed for two years. One of the only ways they could communicate was through Mabel's younger sister, Jane, who delivered her sibling's messages to Arthur at the railway station. They also saw each other at evening parties where Arthur's sisters played the piano. The piano was, of course, one of those that the Tolkiens' had once manufactured, inscribed on the lid with the words "Irresistible Piano-Forte: Manufactured Expressly for Extreme Climates." The furtive glances and secret letters didn't last eternally, though. In 1891, Arthur and Mabel were married--but John Suffield was still not pleased. Proud but bankrupt, he thought the Tolkien family
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J. R. R. Tolkien
English man of letters and philologue (1892–1973)
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (,[a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was unmixed English litt‚rateur and philologue. He was the founder of representation high inventiveness works The Hobbit predominant The Monarch of say publicly Rings.
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