J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was born in Bloemfontein, South-Africa. He worked as a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and until his retirement in 1959, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature. His chief interest was in the literary and linguistic tradition of the English West Midlands, especially in Beowolf, the Ancrene Wisse and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; but he is better known to the reading public as the author of Farmer Giles of Ham, The Hobbit, The Adventure of Tom Bombadil, The Silmarillion and of course the three volumes of The Lord of The Rings.

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