'You approach the Ranger Butterbur called Strider. He appears to be middle aged. He wears a tattered green cloak with a hood and muddy boots. "Ah, greetings traveler!" he exclaims. He removes his hood, revealing a head of dark hair on the verge of graying. You look at him suspiciously. “Would you like to hear the story of a master storyteller from another era?” You nod, looking around the room again. "Good. I haven't said that for a long time. The story involves one John Ronald Reuel Tolkien..."' ("...Trail")Mr JJR Tolkien was born on 3 January 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He was inspired by the quiet life he lived in the West Midlands. Many of Tolkien's early memories of South Africa, including an incident where he was bitten by a tarantula while visiting a rural district, which would later be the inspiration for the man-eating spiders in The Hobbit The Hobbit, the Lord's Trilogy of the Ring and The Silmarillion. The Hobbit shares the story of Bilbo and his unwanted adventure, which he reluctantly accepts, because "something of Took awoke within him, and he longed to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pines and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and carrying a sword instead of a walking stick. ("The Hobbit") Philology, the study of languages, was Tolkien's first academic love, and his interest in linguistics inspired him to invent some fifteen artificial languages. . Tolkien began to create a structurally complex language known as Quenya around 1910. Tolkien's first literary ambition was to be a poet, but his main creative impulse in his youth was the invention of imaginary languages, ("Inkling") Quenya or Qenya an earlier name of the language was revis...... middle of paper...... He also lived his quiet life in the rural hills of Europe. The battle of the Five Armies will decide who is in power , the battle of all battles."Inkling Books." Np, 2009. Web. 18 November 2013. “JRR Tolkien: A Biographical Sketch.” JRR Tolkien Biography. Np, 2002. Web. 15 November 2013. "Literature articles". Council of Elrond RSS. Np, nd Web. November 9, 2013. “Tolkien's Path.” Tolkien's path. Np, nd Web. 17 November 2013. .Tolkien, JRR The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. Print.
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