Born in South Africa in the year 1892 J.R.R. Tolkien was the second child to a middle upper-class English family, his father a banker at the time died when he was young in the year 1896 which caused him and his family to move to England the same year. Where Tolkien would grow and be inspired for his later novels and other works of fiction. His mother died shortly after that in the year 1904 of diabetes. Left with no adult family he was raised in the local parish alongside his brother under the care of Father Francis Morgan. This catholic upbringing would inspire many of the fictional religions in his novels. After his child hood Tolkien would grow up to go to Oxford College, and then would go off to fight in world war one and have two children and marry his beloved wife Edith. Tolkien soldier, writer, professor, father, and doctor of letters; Tolkien was a complicated man who left a broad legacy. ( Doughan 1).
Tolkien was born in 1892 to Arthur Reuel Tolkien and Mabel Suffield Tolkien in South Africa although the exact town is not known due to poor birth records of the time period. Tolkien’s father was a bank clerk who moved to South Africa in the early 1890s from Worcestershire England for better prospects of promotion. Although Tolkien does not remember much of his time in South Africa what he does remember is vivid and has inspired some of his characters in his novels such as the
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Tolkiens publisher was clamoring for another big seller like the hobbit but Tolkien wanted to work on his Silmarillion or as it was called at its beginning the legendarium but as is with most artist masterpieces. It would remain more a dream than reality. Tolkien would come into financial troubles soon after his publication of the hobbit. Tolkien would start on his hit novel series the lord of the rings and write on it for 6 years all while publicizing other short stories set in the world of Middle Earth.