HIS
LIFE :
John
Ronald Rueul Tolkien (1892-1973) was a brilliant writer.
He
was born in Bloemfontein in South Africa on the third of January in
1892. His parents were English.
When
he was 3, he came back in England, a few years before the death of
his parents. Older, he was an excellent student in Oxford, a very
famous university. After Oxford, he was enrolled in the army and he
was an officer during the First World War. Very sick in
the trenches, he
came back again in England. He became a literature profesor
in Oxford
and he was inspired by this and especially his knowledge on ancient
legends, celtic, saxons. For example, in an Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf
and Sigurd are heroes who fight dragons who die like Smaug in "The
Hobbit".
He
started to write his first novel, "The
Silmarillion"
using languages created by himself. In 1937, he became famous thanks
to "The
Hobbit" and
later, the best trilogy ever : "The
Lord of the Rings"
in 1954-55. After his death, thanks to his son Christopher ,we can
now enjoy
all his novels.
HIS
WORK :
His
work was so popular so films
about that were created ; The trilogy "The Lord of the Ring"
and now "Bilbo the Hobbit".
We
all know one of the most popular of his characters ; Frodo Baggins
(Frodon Sacquet in French).
For people who don't know Frodo, he is a Hobbit, Bilbo's
nephew.
Frodo's parents died and Bilbo accepted protecting him. In "The
Lord of the Rings", Gandalf, a wizard,
wanted Frodo and Sam to destroy the ring,
created
by Sauro, in the Mordor.
Sauro
is a fallen elf who betrayed them many times. When he created the
ring, he
put much of his powers
in it. Unfortunately, he lost it and he took the form of a fantom
because of his loss of strenght. He took refuge in the east of the
Middle Earth.
For
me, Tolkien isn't a common writer, he hasn't just created famous
books, he has invented a universe wherein he imaginated characters,
languages, maps and creatures and all his books have a link between
them. It is always the same spirit.
I've
read a lot of trilogies, and for example, the map of "Eragon"
(by Christopher Paolini) was very much inspired by Tolkien's maps.
by Nassim
The two questions are :
- What's the name of the wizard ?
-
Who's Bilbo's nephew ?
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