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    The life of J.R.

    R Tolkein
    Early Life & Education
    ● In J. R. R. Tolkien’s early life was a troubled one
    with emotional distress and insecurity
    ● His father Aurther tolkien died of rheumatic fever on
    feburary the 15 1896, only leaving a few hundred
    pounds
    ● Mabel Tolkien homeschooled J. R. R. and his
    brothers for a time in the hamlet of Sarehole
    ● After J. R. R. Tolkien’s mother died the brothers
    were put under the care of Father Francis Morgan
    who arranged them to be boarded with a distant
    relative and a aqunititance of his own
    ● At the age of 16 J. R. R. Tolkiens fell in love with
    Edith Bratt, but when his guardian found out about
    this he made sure they were separated until J. R. R.
    Tolkien came of age.
    The War and His early Career
    ● One March 22 1916 J. R. R. Tolkien
    married his love Edith, but later he was
    sent to france to join the army as a signals
    officer
    ● In the war one of his closest friends got
    killed when the battle started
    ● He would later succumbed to trench fever
    on October 27 and was sent back to
    england the following month
    ● Tolkien’s other career in the 1920s was
    also very successful.
    ● Tolkien later published a magazine about
    beowulf, the monsters & the critics, which
    was considered a turing point for studying
    the poem
    His Works
    ● His first and good book was The hobbit a epic
    fantasy adventure story
    ● He based it off of early germanic mythology
    inhabited by mythical creatures, dwarves and
    heroes.
    ● Tolkien even went as far as making a world
    history based on the world of middle earth
    ● Tolkien in this book invented a mythical race
    called the hobbits, who act like respectable
    british citizens
    ● Later He would make a sequel to the hobbit,
    the lord of the ring.
    His Works Part 2
    ● Tolkien then makes a sequel to the hobbit, the lord
    of the rings, which is just fantastic
    ● It is about when the one ring is a evil artifact used
    by a long dead dark warlord sauron, which could
    bring him back if not destroyed
    ● It also introduced a anti quest, to throw away or
    destroy something rather then getting something
    ● In this case the one ring had to be destroy for no
    one could be trusted with it, not even gandalf
    himself can safe keep it
    ● So they send out frodo to drop the ring into the
    lava of mount doom!
    Conclusion to his life
    ● At the end of Tolkien's life he had amassed a
    fortune of 190,577 pounds
    ● J. R R Tolkien he retired to his rooms in
    Mertage Collage and died shortly after of a
    chest infection
    ● Today his books are praised by the critics and
    they were turned into fantastic movies for
    people to watch
    ● Both Tolkien and his wife were buried at
    Wolvercote cemetery outside of Oxford
    ● Today Tolkien is remembered as a great
    author who made some great books, and
    introduced the fantasy genre to readers
    around the world.
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