J.R.R

John Ronald Reuel Tolkein, was born on the 3rd of January 1892 - 2nd of September 1973.

He was a English writer, poet, philologist and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works ( The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmanillion ).

He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth of Anglo-Saxon and fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925-1945 and Merton professor of English language and literature and fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945-1959.

After Tolkien's death, his son ( Christopher) published a series of works based on his father's extensive note's and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The lord of the Rings , form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and Literary essays about a fantasy word called Arda and Middle-earth within it.