J. R. R. Tolkien
Personal Info
Known for
Writing
From
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa
Born
1/3/1892
Age
133
Credit(s)
8
Biography
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton ...Show More
