10 Surprising Facts About J.R.R. Tolkien
There are plenty of thing even the most ardent fans do n’t live aboutThe Lord of the Ringsauthor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien , who was deliver on January 3 , 1892 . Here are 10 of them . 1. J.R.R. Tolkien had a flair for the dramatic. As a linguist and expert on Old English and Old Norse literature , Tolkien was a professor at Oxford University from 1925 until 1959 ....