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His Life
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Family moves to England
After Arthur Tolkien died, the family moved to Sarehole in Birmingham, England. http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/abouttolkien.htm -
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King Edwards School
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King Edwards School
Attended King Edwards school in Birminham. He excelled in classical modern language. http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/abouttolkien.htm -
Oxford
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From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames
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WW1
In 1915, Tolkien had graduated from college. By then, WW1 had broken out. So he decided to Enlist. During this time, he wrote "Goblin's Feet".
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Marriage
When Tolkien was told he'd be sent to the Western Front, he decided to marry his oldest friend, Edith Bratt. http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/abouttolkien.htm -
Battle of the Somme
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Typhus
After getting a Typhus bug, Tolkien was sent back home to England to recover. He would spend the rest of the war there.
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Teaching
Finally, Tolkien decided to become a teacher. He joined the University of Leeds, and a few years after that joined Oxford.
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"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit."
During his time at Oxford, Tolkien wrote many things. But he is most famous for this phrase, "there lived a Hobbit". From what this writer can gather, this was written between 1925, when he was teaching at Oxford, and 1937, but no one knows the exact date.
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The Hobbit
After several years, Tolkien had finally finished it. In Sept. of 1937, Hobbit was released. The publisher liked the story so much that he asked for a sequel. But it took a little over a decade for it to come out.
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Lord of the Rings
Finally the sequel came out. The reason lord of the rings came out so long after the hobbit is because Tolkien wanted it perfect. He would leave the books months at a time because he saw history inconsistencies in the story, which made the world so much more realistic. The next two books would follow the story the next year.
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Retire
Tolkien officially retired from all professional duties in 1959, but kept writing. He wrote an essay and poetry collection called "The Tree and Leaf" and another fantasy called "Smith of of Wootton Major".
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Edith
After a long and happy marriage, Eith Bratt Tolkien died at the age of 82. Apparently those who knew them, they both had great effection for each other.
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Death
Finally, at the age of 81, J. R. R. Tolkien, one of the greatest writers of all time, in this persons opinion, died. But all of his unpublished works and unfinished writings were taken and published by his son. His stories have been read by millions, 100 million copies have been published in 25 different langauges.
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