This was a great writer and poet in the twentieth century. He was one of the greatest writers of our time and even today his works are still outstanding. Many generations of writers have in fact been inspired but his creativity and art in both writing and poetry. JRR Tolkien was not only a writer but was a lecturer and a professor of English and literature in the Oxford University between the year 1925 and 1945. Here he was known as the author of classics and fantasy due to his fiction stories. He was promoted to a Mentor Professor of English in the Oxford University where he held this position from 1945 to 1959.

His youthful time was rather interesting. His name was believed to be of German origin which has the meaning of being foolishly clever. This implies that he was very bright since childhood. His father was neither from the US nor the Great Britain but was believed to have come from Saxony in the late eighteenth century. He was believed to have had much interest in the English language and this could have motivated his son John Ronald. He did not have a very big job like his son had at the same age since he only managed to become a clerk in a certain bank in that country. But he much liked promotions though it seemed that he could not get it from his place of work. For this reason, he saw the need to move to South Africa to get all he wanted. Read the rest of this entry »