John Ronald Reuel Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien author, academic, philologist, scholar n close friend of C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia author) n best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings n strongly confident Roman Catholic n father of the modern high fantasy genre n major fantasy works were published in the 1950 s n

J. R. R. T. – background n n n Tolkien was churchman his favourite places from the area where he lived as a young boy have they paraphrases in his books he was annoyed by civilisation arrival to his peaceful nature inspiration for Frodo‘s gardener and best friend (Sam Gamgee) was name of the inventor of special wool he took part in WWI and he didn‘t like it somebody say that Adolf Hitler was an inspiration for the main evil character in The Lord of the Rings, Sauron

J. R. R. T. – early life n n born on the 3 rd January, 1892 at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (situated in the south of Africa) at the age of four he and his brother were taken back to England by their mother family moved to Sarehole, on the south-eastern edge of Birmingham his mother died when he was only twelve

J. R. R. T. – middle life n n n n Tolkien married Edith Bratt took part in WWI, which affected all his life obtained a post on the New English Dictionary wrote for his children the story of The Hobbit publisher Stanley Unwin The Lord of the Rings took twelve years to complete Tolkien and his wife lived near Oxford for most of their life

J. R. R. T. – end of life died on 2 September 1973 n on his and his wife tomb is written: EDITH MARY TOLKIEN LUTHIEN 1889 – 1971 n JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN BEREN 1892 - 1973 the love story of Beren and Luthien is the most known, sad and impressive tale from The Silmarillion

J. R. R. T. – titles and roles n n Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford Reader in English Language at the University of Leeds Professor of English language and literature at Oxford post on the New English Dictionary

J. R. R. T. – hobbies n fascinated by old North Europe languages, so much, that he created several new languages, which were given to speak by noble people like Elves (Quenya, Sindarin, Númenórean, . . . )

J. R. R. T. – writings n n n n The Hobbit or There and Back Again Farmer Giles of Ham The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King Smith of Wootton Major The Father Christmas Letters The Silmarillion (published after his death) Unfinished Tales (published after his death)

J. R. R. T. – inspiration n Tolkien‘s The Lord of the Rings inspired and still inspire many artists like Ted Nasmith, John Howe and others

There are many parodies. . .

The Lord of the Rings - films n n most of you have seen The Lord of the Rings films. Some Tolkiens fans think the films should be better, some thinks there should be no film I think the films are fair copy of the books

Final agreement every picture in this presentation is downloaded from Internet n informations about JRRT life are taken from Wikipedia n Author: Pavel Svaty