John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3rd, 1892 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, England, UK. He came from a long line of middle-class craftsmen who sold fine goods in London, England, his parents were Arthur Reuel Tolkien (1857–1896), an English bank manager, and his wife Mabel. Tolkien's father died soon after his birth in South Africa, so the family stayed in England and by the summer of 1896 his mother found them a home in the hamlet of Sarehole, just outside the city Birmingham.
Unfortunately Tolkien’s mother soon pasted away as well when he was only 12 years old, prior to her death, Mabel Tolkien had bequeathed the guardianship of her sons to a close family friend, Fr. Francis Xavier Morgan of the Birmingham Oratory, and he…show more content… He then realized he would soon need to embark for France, this compelled him and his wife to get married in Warwick, March 22nd, 1916. When the peace treaty for World War I was finally signed on November 11th, 1918, Tolkien had already achieved some success as a writer due to his submissions during the war. He was then appointed a job for the Oxford Dictionary, but that didn’t last too long as he then applied as an associate professor at the University of Leeds. Within a few years he was made a professor at Oxford University and fit in very well almost immediately forming a group of social reading and literature discussion called the, “Inklings”. He continued to write until one day he stumbled upon a sentence that intrigued Tolkien, it stated, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit“. This completely sparked his motivation for creating “The Hobbit” and after showing his colleagues they were so impressed all of them begged Tolkien to publish it. Within weeks of its release “The Hobbit” was hands down the hottest selling book of its year in 1937. Its popularity forced others into constantly badgering Tolkien to produce a sequel. Due to the unexpected popularity of “The Hobbit”, Tolkien now had to create an actual back story and setting for his soon to be
