Facts about Tolkien

[MrFrodo]

Im just reading a book on Tolkien at the moment its really good.

Did you know he was born in Africa..... he lost his father at a very young age when he was 5. His mother die when he was just 12!!!!!

What more im learning about people he meet and how there names are similar to Tolkiens characters.

He was an orphan, a scholar, a soldier, a professor, and author of what is the finest book of the 20th century.

[Goldberry1234]

What's the name of the book you're reading and who wrote it?

[MrFrodo]

Im reading a book called

J.r.r Tolkien
the man who created The Lord of the rings

by Michael Coren

This is a very short book on him i think you can get better ones in more detail but so far its been really gripping.

[Aragorn21]

He was a very amazing man, him and his friends even made their own language.

[33Peregrin]

I find all Tolkien biographies very interesting!! You can see what pieces of LOTR come from where in his life!!! I really enjoyed the one by Humphrey Carpenter, and am reading one by Tom Shippey.

[FoolOfATook]

Are you reading Author Of The Century? I enjoyed that one quite a bit. I haven't been able to find The Road To Middle-earth, Shippey's other book on Tolkien. :( I just finished an interesting Jungian analysis of The Hobbit, and I'm currently working through C.S. Lewis' Surprised By Joy, to get Lewis' take on the famous night when Tolkien and Hugo Dyson engaged Lewis in the conversation that led Lewis to Christianity. I highly recomend Joseph Pearce's Tolkien: Man and Myth for anyone seeking a biography that looks at Tolkien's life and work from a religious perspective- a very important angle in gaining understanding of JRRT. The Letters Of J.R.R. Tolkien is another work that is absolutely essential to any student of Tolkien, the man.