Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892. Tolkien’s father, Arthur Reuel Tolkien, was an English bank manager and his mother, Mabel Tokien, was (well it does not say) probably a house wife. Mabel tutored Tolkien along with his siblings in his early childhood. Later Tolkien attended King Edward's School. Tolkien is most know for many things which include: an English writer, poet, philologist and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. In 1911, Tolkien went to Switzerland and because of that trip he wrote much of Bilbo’s journey across the Misty Mountains. Tolkien asked Edith Mary Bratt to marry him when he was 21 and she was 24. however, she was already engaged to another man but she broke off the engagement to be with Tolkien. Tolkien served as a communications officer during the Battle of the Somme. During his time at Pembroke, Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and the first few of the many The Lord of the Rings Tolkien died on September 2, 1973, at the age of eighty-one.