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The World beyond our eyes and memories survived in the Ancient Tales.

J. R. R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, was born January 3rd 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa of English parents and ceased to be September 2nd 1973. In 1895 Mabel, his mother, takes her children back to Birmingham and John's father stays in South Africa. After his mother's death, he and his siblings go to live with an aunt and Tolkien begins his first course in Oxford in 1908. He married Edith Bratt and goes to war in France after finishing his license. He returns home in 1916 owing to bruises caused by a grenade and is named lieu-tenant before the war ends.
He was professor in Oxford of Anglo-Saxon and English literature and had 4 children, the last of which was born in 1929. In 1926 he discovered the friendship of C. S. Lewis. He started writing the Silmarillion in 1917, a book that was published after his death and that would continue all over his life. His first published book was The Hobbit (1937 Uk, 1938 Us) and he started it, as he later said, a hot summer day when he was correcting graduation essays in literature and he found an empty page "piously" left by one of the students (see book list). After the publication of 8 of his works, he moves to Poole, near Bournemouth (1968). Edith died there in 1971 being 82 years old. Tolkien returns to Oxford in 1972 and is awarded with the British Empire Cross from the hands of the queen. He died in 1973 being 21 years old.
Quotes	Tolkien's Races.
Poems	Fonts (see links). Elvish Heraldry. Book List.
Tolkien's Arda.	Links.
Other Fantastic Literature Authors... David Eddings. Margaret Weis/T. Hickman. Stephen Lawhead C. S. Lewis Fairy Tales.

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