The first years of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien are difficult years. It is born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Libre state from Orange from South Africa. His/her father, director of a bank, dies four years later, February 15, 1896. John then leaves his native land for England. It passes its childhood in the village of Sarehole, close to Birmingham. With the death of his/her mother, Tolkien is collected by an old priest. The man develops in the child the taste of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
With its return of France, where it is useful in Lancashire Fusilier during the First World War, Tolkien resumes its studies. It is graduate famous university of Oxford in 1919, work with the development of the dictionary of Oxford, becomes Master attending the university of Leeds, a pulpit of Anglo-Saxon language in Oxford in 1925 obtains then, in 1945, a pulpit of language and English literature which it will occupy until 1959.
Considered philologist, it is on September 21, 1936 - it has forty-four years - that Tolkien writes its first novel: "Hobbit Bilbo the". The account, traditional of children´s literature, borrow from the Scandinavian sagas, with Germanic mythology and the novels of the round Table. But Bilbo the Hobbit is not the only work of J.R.R. Tolkien whose action occurs in the Earth from the Medium. It would be impossible not to quote "the Lord of the Rings" (1954-1955), "Adventures of Tom Bombadil", or its "Unfinished Tales and Legends". In "Silmarillion", collection of the legends and mythologies of the Earth of the Medium, it tells us the painful love of Luthien. Painful because Luthien, elfic princess, a life expectancy of almost one millenium has, whereas Beren has only its short human existence. Time has as little catch on the books as on the Elves, and Tolkien probably carried to his as much of love than Beren had some for Luthien.
Under the feather of Tolkien re-appears a hidden universe populated magicians, elves, dwarves, of balrogs... who will find his apogee later a score of years.
Et Na!!! 