Term Papers on John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Term Paper Title	John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born to Arthur and Mabel Tolkien on
a Sunday morning in 1892.  To be exact the date was January 3, 1892.
When he was only about 6 he lived in South Africa.  A few months later he
was kidnapped and was later found with a tribe of natives and had learned
their culture.  When he was claimed by his parents they died a few weeks
later and he moved to Birmingham, England.  He was raised by a priest.  He
was versed in many languages.  The languages he could speak, read or write
in are Anglo-Saxon, Welsh, Finnish, Icelandic, German, Old German, and
Gothic, which is a derivative of English.
When Tolkien was a young adult he lived through and fought in
World War I, which he said was the bloodiest battle he had ever seen.  Most
of Tolkien's creativity and ideas came from his service in the military.  On
July 15, 1915, Tolkien was assigned temporary 2nd lieutenant in the 13th
Reserve Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers.
Tolkien was chosen to go to Oxford,  the highest college in all of
England.  "When he arrived at Oxford he saw that the city had a deep
tradition in mythology, history and legends."  Things at college were
expensive for that time.  "Admission fee was 5L which is about 1.31 dollars
per L."  Caution money was due at the time of entry but is returned at the
end of college.
Tolkien joined the teachers and professors at Oxford in 1925.  "He
quickly took his spot as one of the more influential and innovative."  He was
a philosopher in a faculty dominated by specialists in literature.  Tolkien had
many people who he had admired.  People like C.S. Lewis was a person that
he admired then later became very good friends with.
While they were friends they formed a group called "The Inklings"
that constantly wrote short stories and read them to each other to get
feedback.  "Tolkien was embarrassed by the stories he wrote and often didn't
read them out loud."
Tolkien made a lot of friends when he began to write.  Most of these
friends were a great influence on his writing.  A few of these friends were
Professor Dawkins and Helen MacMillan Buckhurst.  Also Hugo Dyson
who was severely wounded in the war with Tolkien, was probably one of the
biggest influences on him.  Tolkien was amazed at all the people that wr...

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