J.R.R. Tolkien was born to an English banker and his wife on January 3rd, 1892. When he was still a young child his father died of a fever while J.R.R. and the rest of the family was visiting family in England. Until attending college at King Edwards’s School he was exclusively schooled by his mother. Tolkien did not immediately join the fight upon the outbreak of World War 1, but instead waited until he graduated from college so that the could commission instead of enlisting. In 1925 he took a job at Oxford as a professor. During this time he would go on to write The Hobbit and the beginning of the Lord of the Rings series which are considered his greatest works. Tolkien would eventually die in 1973.
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