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It all begins on a ship, Roslin Castle, a day in mars 1891. Mabel Suffield a young British woman was on the way to South Africa where her fiancé, Arthur Tolkien, was waiting. He were a banker in Bloemsfontein in South Africa. A year later, the third of January their firstborn child is born. They named him John Ronald Reul Tolkien. John after Arthur’s father, Reul after Arthur himself, but Ronald was not a family name. Arthur and Mabel called their son Ronald, as well did his relatives and his wife. But he could still say that Ronald didn’t feel like it was his real name. His friends and family didn’t know what to call him. His close friends during school called him John Ronald because it sounded magnificent and euphonious. When he was an adult his friends called him by his last name or Tollers. Those who didn’t know him that well just called him J.R.R.T. In the end these four initials seamed to represented him the best.

His mother wanted to go back to England but they had to postpone it, Mabel was pregnant again. The seventeenth of February 1894 Tolkiens younger brother Hilary was born. Hilary managed the weather really well while his brother didn’t. J.R.R became sick and it went that far that he, his mother and Hilary had to leave Bloemsfontein for England in April 1895.
They settled down in Sarehole, Birmingham, a village on the country side. Before that they stayed at Mabels parents house. In November the same year Arthur were struck down with rheumatic fever. He died the year later. Now Mabel and the boys moved to Sarehole.

His mother later on after her husbands death converted to Catholicism. Her sister followed her and their family became upset over their decision. Mabels sister later on turned to spiritualism because of her husband. Now Mabel were on her own.

In 1899 Tolkien tried to get in to King Edward’s, his fathers old school. He didn’t get in. the year after when he was eight years old he managed to get in.
His mother realized that they couldn’t stay in Sarehole so they moved to Mosley. They didn’t live there for long before the house were demolished. They moved to a house behind King’s Heath Station an kilometre away not far away from her parents. In front of their new house charcoal trains went up and down the tracks. These had strangely names as Nantyglo, Senghenydd, Blaen-Rhondda, Penrhiwceiber and Tredegar. Trough this he discovered welsh.

Tolkien read a lot as a child but it wasn’t HC Andersen’s books that drew him to read. It was books about Indians and books by George MacDonald’s Curdie-books. About dragons and heros. He once wrote about a dragon. His mother just told him that he couldn’t write “one green big dragon” it should be “one big green dragon”. He asked why because he wondered why. He wondered why even as an adult.

As an ten year old they moved again. This time to Edgbaston there it was a school were Tolkien and Hilary could get a Catholic raising. Soon Tolkien became to good for the new school and he had to return to Kind Edward’s were he had gotten a scholarship. In Edgbaston there were a priest that became a good fiend to the family that supported Tolkien and Hilary when their mother Mabel died in diabetic fourteenth of November 1904. The priest father Francis became the boys guardian and really supported them in their studies. As a child he was interested in philology, about the words construction. He thought of new languages of his own. He and one of his cousins thought of an secret language of their own.
Year 1908 Tolkien and Hilary moved to an house that were owned by a Mrs Faulkner. There also lived a young woman named Edith Bratt. She was also an orphan. She and Tolkien fell in love but father Francis told him that he wasn’t allowed to meet her until he is 21 years old and have graduated from Oxford University. When he as a twenty one year old sent a letter to Edith were he pronounced to her she told him that she was already engaged. Tolkien couldn’t believe it so he travelled to Cheltenham were she lived in 1913. She left the man she was engaged with and became Tolkiens fiancé.  They got married Wednesday the twenty second of mars 1916. A couple of days after their wedding Tolkien went to Somme s an soldier. He survived the battle that took two of his closest friends. He got struck down with trench fever and were sent back to England. During his time at the hospital he wrote an epos that were the beginning of his masterpiece “the Lord of the Rings” and the stories of Middle earth.

After world war one Tolkien worked at the editorial office of  “The English Dictionary”. In 1920 he became a docent at the University in Leeds and four years later he became an professor there. In 1925 he entered an duty as an professor in Anglo-Saxon at the Pembroke College were he worked for twenty years before he became an professor at Merton College in Oxford.

Tolkien and Edith got four children, John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla. It was for them he started to write his first book, “The Hobbit, There and back again”. The book came out year 1937 and his publisher wanted him to write a continuing on “The Hobbit” because of the success that the book had. It took about fifteen years for him to write his new book, “The Lord of the Rings”. But first Tolkien wanted to publish “The Silmarillion”, the big epic story that he began writing when he came back from Somme. But the publisher thought that it wouldn’t be such an success as “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” were to massive to print as one book so they divided it in three different books. Tolkien didn’t like that his book that he had worked so hard on wouldn’t be published as one book. “the Lord of the Rings” were released a year at a time. The book were warmly welcome of those who had read his first book when it came out. During the 60’s the book really got its break through. It sold more than three million copies only in the US.

Tolkien became famous worldwide but he took it easily because he was an simple man. His son Christopher helped his father drawing the map of Middle Earth and wrote on the typing machine while his father dictated. He also wrote an collection of poems that were put together in a book called Adventures of Tom Bombadill”
This strange man shows up in the first book, “The fellowship of the ring”. The second book in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy is “The Two Towers”. The third book, “The Return of the King”. Tolkien didn’t like the title of the third book because it gave away what will happen in the book. He continued working on what he thought was his biggest work of them all.

He had a small group of friends. One of the were the author of the “Narnia”-books C.S Lewis. They were main members of the companionship, The Inklings. It was thanks to C.S that Tolkien published “The Hobbit”.  And C.S also encouraged Tolkien to continue writing “The Lord of the Rings”. C.S became a very close friend of Tolkiens.

Tolkien got retired summer 1959 and he and his wife moved to Bournemouth, were Edith also died in 1971. After her death Tolkien moved back to Oxford and became a doctor of honour at the University in Oxford fourth of June 1972. He lived in Oxford until his death second of September 1973.
Christopher published “The Silmarillion” posthumous after his fathers death. “The Silmarillion” was one work that Tolkien never finished. The book were published in 1977 edited by his youngest son and assistant during writing “The Lord of the Rings”.

The End

Description
It all begins on a ship, Roslin Castle, a day in mars 1891. Mabel Suffield a young British woman was on the way to South Africa where her fiancé, Arthur Tolkien, was waiting. He were a banker in Bloemsfontein in South Africa. A year later, the third of January their firstborn child is born. They named him John Ronald Reul Tolkien. John after Arthur’s father, Reul after Arthur himself, but Ronald was not a family name. Arthur and Mabel called their son Ronald, as well did his relatives and his wife. But he could still say that Ronald didn’t feel like it was his real name. His friends and family didn’t know what to call him. His close friends during school called him John Ronald because it sounded magnificent and euphonious. When he was an adult his friends called him by his last name or Tollers. Those who didn’t know him that well just called him J.R.R.T. In the end these four initials seamed to represented him the best.

His mother wanted to go back to England but they had to postpone it, Mabel was pregnant again. The seventeenth of February 1894 Tolkiens younger brother Hilary was born. Hilary managed the weather really well while his brother didn’t. J.R.R became sick and it went that far that he, his mother and Hilary had to leave Bloemsfontein for England in April 1895.
They settled down in Sarehole, Birmingham, a village on the country side. Before that they stayed at Mabels parents house. In November the same year Arthur were struck down with rheumatic fever. He died the year later. Now Mabel and the boys moved to Sarehole.

His mother later on after her husbands death converted to Catholicism. Her sister followed her and their family became upset over their decision. Mabels sister later on turned to spiritualism because of her husband. Now Mabel were on her own.

In 1899 Tolkien tried to get in to King Edward’s, his fathers old school. He didn’t get in. the year after when he was eight years old he managed to get in.
His mother realized that they couldn’t stay in Sarehole so they moved to Mosley. They didn’t live there for long before the house were demolished. They moved to a house behind King’s Heath Station an kilometre away not far away from her parents. In front of their new house charcoal trains went up and down the tracks. These had strangely names as Nantyglo, Senghenydd, Blaen-Rhondda, Penrhiwceiber and Tredegar. Trough this he discovered welsh.

Tolkien read a lot as a child but it wasn’t HC Andersen’s books that drew him to read. It was books about Indians and books by George MacDonald’s Curdie-books. About dragons and heros. He once wrote about a dragon. His mother just told him that he couldn’t write “one green big dragon” it should be “one big green dragon”. He asked why because he wondered why. He wondered why even as an adult.

As an ten year old they moved again. This time to Edgbaston there it was a school were Tolkien and Hilary could get a Catholic raising. Soon Tolkien became to good for the new school and he had to return to Kind Edward’s were he had gotten a scholarship. In Edgbaston there were a priest that became a good fiend to the family that supported Tolkien and Hilary when their mother Mabel died in diabetic fourteenth of November 1904. The priest father Francis became the boys guardian and really supported them in their studies. As a child he was interested in philology, about the words construction. He thought of new languages of his own. He and one of his cousins thought of an secret language of their own.
Year 1908 Tolkien and Hilary moved to an house that were owned by a Mrs Faulkner. There also lived a young woman named Edith Bratt. She was also an orphan. She and Tolkien fell in love but father Francis told him that he wasn’t allowed to meet her until he is 21 years old and have graduated from Oxford University. When he as a twenty one year old sent a letter to Edith were he pronounced to her she told him that she was already engaged. Tolkien couldn’t believe it so he travelled to Cheltenham were she lived in 1913. She left the man she was engaged with and became Tolkiens fiancé.  They got married Wednesday the twenty second of mars 1916. A couple of days after their wedding Tolkien went to Somme s an soldier. He survived the battle that took two of his closest friends. He got struck down with trench fever and were sent back to England. During his time at the hospital he wrote an epos that were the beginning of his masterpiece “the Lord of the Rings” and the stories of Middle earth.

After world war one Tolkien worked at the editorial office of  “The English Dictionary”. In 1920 he became a docent at the University in Leeds and four years later he became an professor there. In 1925 he entered an duty as an professor in Anglo-Saxon at the Pembroke College were he worked for twenty years before he became an professor at Merton College in Oxford.

Tolkien and Edith got four children, John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla. It was for them he started to write his first book, “The Hobbit, There and back again”. The book came out year 1937 and his publisher wanted him to write a continuing on “The Hobbit” because of the success that the book had. It took about fifteen years for him to write his new book, “The Lord of the Rings”. But first Tolkien wanted to publish “The Silmarillion”, the big epic story that he began writing when he came back from Somme. But the publisher thought that it wouldn’t be such an success as “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” were to massive to print as one book so they divided it in three different books. Tolkien didn’t like that his book that he had worked so hard on wouldn’t be published as one book. “the Lord of the Rings” were released a year at a time. The book were warmly welcome of those who had read his first book when it came out. During the 60’s the book really got its break through. It sold more than three million copies only in the US.

Tolkien became famous worldwide but he took it easily because he was an simple man. His son Christopher helped his father drawing the map of Middle Earth and wrote on the typing machine while his father dictated. He also wrote an collection of poems that were put together in a book called Adventures of Tom Bombadill”
This strange man shows up in the first book, “The fellowship of the ring”. The second book in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy is “The Two Towers”. The third book, “The Return of the King”. Tolkien didn’t like the title of the third book because it gave away what will happen in the book. He continued working on what he thought was his biggest work of them all.

He had a small group of friends. One of the were the author of the “Narnia”-books C.S Lewis. They were main members of the companionship, The Inklings. It was thanks to C.S that Tolkien published “The Hobbit”.  And C.S also encouraged Tolkien to continue writing “The Lord of the Rings”. C.S became a very close friend of Tolkiens.

Tolkien got retired summer 1959 and he and his wife moved to Bournemouth, were Edith also died in 1971. After her death Tolkien moved back to Oxford and became a doctor of honour at the University in Oxford fourth of June 1972. He lived in Oxford until his death second of September 1973.
Christopher published “The Silmarillion” posthumous after his fathers death. “The Silmarillion” was one work that Tolkien never finished. The book were published in 1977 edited by his youngest son and assistant during writing “The Lord of the Rings”.

The End