J.R.R. Tolkien

Tolkien is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. He began working on his history of Middle-Earth while recovering from the trench fever that he had caught while serving in WWI. He was a professor of English language at Leeds and of Anglo-Saxon language and English language and literature at Oxford. A strongly committed Catholic, Tolkien was a close friend of C.S. Lewis and a member of what famous literary discussion group? More... Tolkien, authors, literature, reading, communication