The Hobbit Research Paper

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J.R.R Tolkien is an internationally famous fantasy writer, best known for authoring the books, ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. Tolkien became widely known and successful due to these books. Throughout this paper, topics on J.R.R Tolkien will be thoroughly discussed.(Source #4) First, J.R.R. Tolkien’s early life and family was rough but overall a happy one. Tolkien struggled through loss and moving around a lot. J.R.R. Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on January 3, 1892, to Arthur and Mabel Tolkien. J.R.R. Tolkien’s full name was John Ronald Reuel, went by the name Ronald. J.R.R. Tolkiens’ father, Arthur, died from rheumatic fever when J.R.R was only 4 years old. J.R.R. Tolkien was left with very little …show more content…

Tolkien loved England and its people, but in many ways preferred his own world populated by elves and hobbits. After he read a collection of Finnish mythic poetry, Tolkien wrote “These mythological ballads are full of htat very primitive undergrowth that the literature of Europe has on the whole bean steadily cutting and reducing for many centuries… I would that we had more of it left-something of the same sort that belonged to the English.” Tolkien had learned Middle English while attending King Edward’s School in Birmingham and had taught himself Old English from an Anglo-Saxon primer. And he had invented his own languages. Tolkien had always had a fascination with myth and legends, for ex. Sir Gawain, Green Knight, and Beowulf. Tolkien’s love for Old English compelled him to look to 1066 as one of the darkest dates of all history, and to resent the impact that Norman French had on the original “English” language. Even from his love with words and epic literature, the wish that England had a mythology like Finland’s must have seemed like nothing more than a wishful lament. Tolkien intended to remedy the situation by years later, lightheartedly describing his vision: “Do not laugh! But once upon a time…I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic to the level of romantic fairy-story…which I could dedicate simply to England, my country.” Tolkien had written two major length books of mythology that became widely known. These books involved elves, hobbits, dwarfs, orcs, goblins and more which was such everything Tolkien loved and had a fascination for. These books contained everything Tolkien loves, they were his dreams come true. Overall, Tolkien very much loved his people but preferred his own world, which became his books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.(Source

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