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What Is The Impact Of Tolkien's Influence On The Modern World?

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Upon researching one of the most well loved stories of the last century, one will without doubt encounter the name of the author of such a book. The fictional world of the story is set in a land of elves and orcs, dwarves and humans, and, most importantly, hobbits. It is a tale of bravery, friendship, determination, corruption, and it is a tale of a great journey. The title of the story is The Lord of the Rings, and the author of it is J.R.R. Tolkien. J.R.R. Tolkien produced one of the most beloved stories of the last century, and has influenced the modern world of fantasy. (J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien 2)
Born in Bloemfontein, South Africa on January 3, 1892, Tolkien lived to be 81 years old, and died on September 2, 1973 due to complications resulting from a bleeding gastric ulcer and a chest infection. He attended Exeter College in Oxford from 1911 to 1919, and then went on to be an author and a scholar. Token was a lover of language, and this is shown in his most admired stories, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings. To quote Humphrey Carpenter in J.R.R. Tolkien: a Biography, “It was a deep love for the look and sound of words that motivated him, springing from the days when his mother had given him his first Latin lesson.” (Contemporary authors online 4)

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His second most well known novel, The Hobbit, was voted into the top 100. According to Augustus M. Holich in the dictionary of literary biography, “Not since Milton has any Englishman worked so successfully at creating a second world, derived from our own yet complete in its own terms with encyclopedic mythologies; an imagined world that includes a vast gallery of strange beings…” All three volumes of The Lord of the Rings have been turned into feature films of the same titles. The movies were released in 2001, 2002, and 2003, and the third movie received an academy award as best picture of 2004 (authors

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