Tolkien, British writer, talented linguist, professor of English language and literature at Merton College, Oxford University, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1919 to 1920.
With magnificent imagination and profound language, he established a new mythological system in the English-speaking world. Tolkien’s ambitions were not to write a legend or an epic. Among his series of epics in Central Continent, the most influential ones are The Hobbit (The Hobbit: There and Back Again) and The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings). These two masterpieces are known as the originators of contemporary fantasy works. They have sold more than 250 million copies and have been translated into more than 60 languages.
Tolkien invented 15 languages including Quenya and Sindarin in the book, each of which has strict vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar rules. The races in the Mid-Continent world, whether humans, hobbits, elves, dwarves, and treants, have their own language. Based on this, the fans published a Tolkien language dictionary and communicated their compliments in Elvish. There are even dedicated Elvish teachers on the Internet to help you change your homework.
When Tolkien was 16 years old, he fell in love with Edith, who was 3 years older than him. The two finally married in 1916, and they have been together for more than half a century. After Edith's death, Tolkien added the name "Lucian" to her tombstone, a female elf from the Middle Continent, who gave up the right to immortality as an elf in order to marry the human hero Belen. After Tolkien's death, the children added the name "Belen" to the tombstone where their parents were buried together.
The grandfather of "The Hobbit" director Peter Jackson, William, used to be a soldier of the South Wales Frontier regiment in the Somme and fought bloody battles with the young Tolkien. The mission of his camp was later replaced by Tolkien's regiment. succeed. 85 years later, director Jackson made the novel of his grandfather and his comrades into a fantasy epic blockbuster.
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