J.R.R. Tolkien
Biography
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford.
Born: 3 January 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Died: 2 September 1973 (age 81 years), Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Influenced: C. S. Lewis, Christopher Tolkien, David Anthony Durham
Date knighted: 28 March 1972
Organization founded: The Inklings