Then suddenly his life changed dramatically. Lewis and the other writers known as The Inklings. After the war he returned to the academic life, achieving high repute as a scholar and university teacher, eventually becoming Merton Professor of English at Oxford where he was a close friend of C.S. He served in the first World War, surviving the Battle of the Somme, where he lost many of the closest friends he'd ever had. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was orphaned in childhood and brought up in near-poverty. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth.
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