John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born January 3rd, 1892, in Bloemfontein , .
His parents were Arthur and Mabel Tolkien. Hilary John's brother .
was born when he was 3. Tolkien probably didn't remember his town of birth very .
well because at the age of four his father died so they moved to the West Midlands .
in England. This was a mixture of industrial and rural area. Shortly after that they .
moved to more pleasant Birmingham suburb of Edgebaston. Tolkien's family didn't .
live well but they were not in poverty. .
In 1904, something tragic happened, Mabel Tolkien was diagnosed with .
diabetes which was incurable. She died later on that year which left her two boys .
orphaned. The family's Catholic minister looked after the boys, but they were .
boarded with their aunt Beatrice Suffield , and then with Mrs. Faulkner. Tolkien .
made many friends at his school King Edward's, and had spent some time making .
up his own languages. When Tolkien was sixteen he became close with a friend .
Edith Bratt. His minister, Father Francis found out about this and disallowed him .
from seeing her for three years. .
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Tolkien attended Exeter College, Oxford in 1911. While he enrolled there he .
spent most of his time studying classic languages such as: Old English, the .
Germanic languages (especially gothic), Welsh, and Finnish. He studied these until .
1913, when he got back together with Edith. He only finished with a second degree .
in Honour Moderations of a 4 year "Greats" (ie.classics) course. He then went to .
school for english language and literature, because of the result of his other course. .
War broke out in England but Tolkien went back to Oxford. He worked hard and .
achieved his first degree. .
Later, he was sent to fight in the war on the Western Front. After four .
months in the insanitary conditions of the war he caught "trench fever." With the .
exception of himslef and all but one of his close friends died in the war. During .
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A long time ago, in a shire far, far away before Harry Potter rode a broomstick, before Luke Skywalker lifted a light saber, Frodo Baggins inherited a ring. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on 3 January 1892 at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, but at the age of four, his mother, Mary Suffi...
The preceding sentence was a quote spoken by J.R.R Tolkien. ... J.R.R Tolkiens" inspiration came from his life experiences. Different events in J.R.R Tolkiens" life led him to be the one of the most imaginative writers of our century. ... (Hammond 3) In 1900 Mabel Tolkien, Tolkiens mother, was received into the Catholic church. ... Tolkien and Edith married on March 22, 1916. ...
