John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon) from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English language and literature from 1945 to 1959. He was a devout Roman Catholic. Wikipedia
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was Merton Professor of English language and literature for more than a decade and was recognized as an authority on Old and Middle English. www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/tolkien/index.html
JRR Tolkien and Middle Earth JRR Tolkien, creator of Middle Earth, was one of the greatest writers and scholars of the twentieth century. www.tolkien-online.com/