Tragedy struck again in 1904, when Tolkien's mother was diagnosed with diabetes, which at the time was untreatable. By the end of the year she had died and Ronald and his brother were left orphaned.

As well as being a founding member of the Inklings, Tolkien also founded the Leeds Viking Club in the 1920s. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in England in 1892 and became famous for writing The ...

Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is another box office hit based on J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was a British writer, poet, philologist and a ...

It was on this date in 1892 that the author, J.R.R. Tolkien, was born. In case you were wondering, his initials stand for John Ronald Reuel. Jan. 4. National Spaghetti Day. And what does it mean to ...

(106 BCE) 133 years ago today, J.R.R. Tolkien, the English poet and author of Lord of the Rings, was born in South Africa to English parents. Working as a professor, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ...

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Jimmy Carter was elected President in a patriotic year. It was 1976, the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Congress had chartered a national Bicentennial Commission overseeing ...

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