J.R.R. Tolkien
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a professor of the Anglo-Saxon language and author of several influential fantasy books such as The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
He created the land of Middle-earth which is inhabited by men, elves, dwarves, wizards, goblins and hobbits.[1] A sometime resident of the English Midlands, Tolkien based his vision of Mordor on the city of Birmingham, and other parts of Middle-Earth upon other parts of England.
He and several others (among them C.S. Lewis) were members of a literary club called the Inklings. Tolkien and Lewis were good friends, and Tolkien had a large role in Lewis's eventual embracing of Christianity[2]
References
- ↑ The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937.
- ↑ Heroes of the Faith, C.S.Lewis by Sam Wellman, Barbour Publishing, Inc., 1997.
