This site has been visited by
elves, humans and hobbits alike.
y some curios chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green, and the hobbits were still numerous and prosperous, and Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached down nearly to his woolly toes (neatly brushed) - Gandalf came by. ~The Hobbit~
hree Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all together and in darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie. ~Lord of The Rings~
his website is dedicated
to my Dad, J.R.R Tolkien, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.
These two
masterpieces, The Hobbit coming first in 1937, then the Lord of the Rings in 1954, were boththe work
of a man named John Roland Reuel Tolkien. Tolkien was born on the 3rd of January, 1892 in Bloemfontein
in the Orange Free State. In 1895, Tolkien, his young brother and his mother moved back to England.
His mother, Mabel, died in 1904, and Father Francis Morgan took care of the young boys. Ronald
developed his talents in language when he went to King Edward's School. He went on to study
at Oxford University, and in the meantime the First World War broke out. In 1916, before Tolkien left
for France, he married a woman named Edith Bratt. Surviving the Battle of Somme, Tolkien caught
trench fever and was invalided at home. After the war, Tolkien spent several years as a Professor of
Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, where he soon was to prove himself the best philologist in the world.
Tolkien had already started a book called the Silmarillion. This book is about the mythology and the
history of Middle-Earth (Tolkien's fantasy setting). Tolkien and Edith had four children, and it was
to them Tolkien first told the tale of the Hobbit, which was published in 1937 by Sir Stanly Unwin.
The Hobbit was so succesful, that the publisher immediatly wanted a follow up.
But, it was not until 1954 that Tolkien's greatest masterpiece, the Lord of the Rings, was published.
After retirement Tolkien and Edith moved to Bournemouth. Tolkien returned to Oxford, where he died
after a brief illness on 2nd of September, 1973.
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maug certainly looked fast asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. ~The Hobbit~ Back to the top!
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