John Ronald R. Tolkien's Major Accomplishments

This paper investigates the life and writing career of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. The accomplishments earned throughout his lifetime are still known to this day, though some of his fans still criticize on his work as a children’s novel. Even so, they consider him to be very heroic, adventurous, daring and inspirational. He has the will to prove many other authors that it does not matter where a person is from, for its all in the person and how determined he or she is. Though as a flaw for every human, his journey would soon end but that did not stop Tolkien’s work from ending with him. His many famous work will never come to an end, for his work will live among us and his name will be in the history of famous English writers. J.R.R Tolkien

This is a quote from one of J.R.R Tolkien’s many famous novels, The Fellowship of the Ring which was known to be famous through his passion for writing adventurous novels in the 1920s, which included Tree and Leaf, The Hobbit, and Unfinished Tales. Though these were only a handful of his many written novels, his most famous work to date is The Lord of the Rings sequels which basically talks about a hobbit, a man half the size of a regular man, who discovers a ring of evil and must go on a quest to destroy it before it lays into the hand of evil and destroys mankind. Though J.R.R Tolkien wrote mainly adventurous books, his life story itself was also an adventure that would lead him to become one of many famous authors. There are many things that led J.R.R Tolkien to become a famous author in the early

His legacy did not die off with him for his famous novels were introduced into our society through another way of entertainment. As Tolkien died, his famous novel The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series continued to be sold throughout the world, more than ten million copies were sold (Author, 2010). By 2001, Peter Jackson, a movie director, decided to care on Tolkien’s famous novels by creating movies based of them starring, Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett and Viggo Mortensen, and many others. From there, Jackson created the first Lord of the Ring series, The Fellowship of the Ring, which became a big hit that soon led him to finishing off the series with The Two Towers and The Return of the King by 2003 which made over 2.92 billion dollars all together (Micheal, 2011). With the successful ending of the Lord of the Ring series, this did not stop Peter Jackson from continuing Tolkien’s masterpiece and carried on to making another series based of The Hobbits tale starring Martin Freeman. Yet again, by 2012 Jackson surprised the people with a another movie called The Hobbit and two years down the road was able to close out the series with The Desolation and The Battle of Five Armies making up to almost 745 millions dollars and