Here is a list of fun, interesting, and sometimes random facts about the great author of "The Lord of the Rings."
-His full name was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
-He was commonly refereed to as Ronald, not John
-He was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa
-He was bitten by a tarantula when he was three (still in South Africa)
-He had a younger brother called Hilary Arthur Tolkien
-After the death of his father when he was still young, his mother moved the family back to England where Ronald started school
-He worked on the school newspaper when he was in secondary school.
-He met Edith, his future wife, after his mother died, but the schoolmaster who had taken guardianship of Ronald, forbid him to see Edith
-He went to Exeter College (commonly known as Oxford) in Oxford
-He enlisted in the army and fought in WWI, but after the battle at the Somme, was sent home from shell-shock
-He married Edith and had four children: John, Christopher, Michael, and Pricilla
-He helped with writing the Oxford Dictionary
-He became a professor at Exeter
-He became a warden during WWII
-He converted C. S. Lewis to Christianity
-He hated allegories
-He, Lewis, and a few friends stared a writing club. They met at "The Eagle and the Child" a pub in Oxford
-He appointed his son Christopher to continue the work he had stared on Middle-Earth after his death
-He thought C. S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia" was very childish
-On his and Edlth's tombstone, he had inscribed Beren and Luthien
-He was commonly refereed to as Ronald, not John
-He was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa
-He was bitten by a tarantula when he was three (still in South Africa)
-He had a younger brother called Hilary Arthur Tolkien
-After the death of his father when he was still young, his mother moved the family back to England where Ronald started school
-He worked on the school newspaper when he was in secondary school.
-He met Edith, his future wife, after his mother died, but the schoolmaster who had taken guardianship of Ronald, forbid him to see Edith
-He went to Exeter College (commonly known as Oxford) in Oxford
-He enlisted in the army and fought in WWI, but after the battle at the Somme, was sent home from shell-shock
-He married Edith and had four children: John, Christopher, Michael, and Pricilla
-He helped with writing the Oxford Dictionary
-He became a professor at Exeter
-He became a warden during WWII
-He converted C. S. Lewis to Christianity
-He hated allegories
-He, Lewis, and a few friends stared a writing club. They met at "The Eagle and the Child" a pub in Oxford
-He appointed his son Christopher to continue the work he had stared on Middle-Earth after his death
-He thought C. S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia" was very childish
-On his and Edlth's tombstone, he had inscribed Beren and Luthien
