Facts about J.R.R. Tolkien Biography

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   Friendship with C.S. Lewis deeply influenced J.R.R. Tolkien's life; the two met through the Oxford literary discussion group known as the Inklings.

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   Born in Bloemfontein in 1892, J.R.R. Tolkien moved to England as a young child and never returned to his South African birthplace.

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   A lifelong academic, J.R.R. Tolkien served as a professor of Anglo-Saxon and later English language and literature at Oxford University for most of his career.

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   Tolkien served as a signals officer in World War I and fought at the Battle of the Somme before being invalided home with trench fever.

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   The biography of J.R.R. Tolkien reveals he was orphaned by age 12 and raised by a Catholic priest, Father Francis Morgan.

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