June 7, 2006

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Tolkien is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. He began working on his history of Middle-Earth while recovering from the trench fever that he had caught while serving in WWI. He was a professor of English language at Leeds and of Anglo-Saxon language and English language and literature at Oxford. A strongly committed Catholic, Tolkien was a close friend of C.S. Lewis and a member of what famous literary discussion group?
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