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J. R. R. Tolkien on courage.
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QUOTE: Courage is found in
unlikely places.
AUTHOR: J. R. R. Tolkien A.K.A John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3
January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist,
and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy
works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth
Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and
Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Merton College, Oxford
from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were
both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings.
Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen
Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.
After his father's death, Tolkien's son
Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes
and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together
with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings form a connected body
of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays
about a fantasy world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and
1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these
writings. While many other authors had published works of fantasy before
Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused Tolkien to
be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy
literature—or, more precisely, of high fantasy.
In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on
a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Forbes
ranked him the 5th top-earning dead celebrity in 2009.
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