Who wrote "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again"

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Ronald Reuel John Tolkien - the great writer, eminent scientist and the one who wrote The Hobbit - was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. His parents moved there from England due to the work of his father Arthur. Tolkien lost both parents early: his father died in Africa in 1896 after the rest of the family returned to England, and his mother Mabel died in 1904 near Birmingham. After Mabel's death, John and his younger brother Hilary were taken over by family friend Francis Morgan. Shortly thereafter, Tolkien went to King Edward's School and then went to Oxford.

At Oxford, Tolkien wanted to get a degree in English Language and Literature. He developed a special passion for philology, the study of languages. While studying Old English, Anglo-Saxon and Welsh poetry, he continued to experiment with the language on his own. This language would form the basis for his imaginary world known as Middle-earth.

When and who wrote The Hobbit?

By 1916 Tolkien had completed his degree and married his sweetheart Edith Bratt. He ended up taking a teaching position at Oxford. ToIn 1929, he and Edith had a fourth child. During these years, the writer also began his great mythology of Middle-earth, a collection of short stories called The Silmarillion. Out of these stories grew The Hobbit (1936), his first published work. A simple children's story about a little man who takes part in big adventures; The novel's playful tone and imagery made it a hit not only with children but adults as well. No one wondered who wrote The Hobbit anymore - everyone knew his name. The success of the novel brought Tolkien a huge following who were eager to learn more about the world he created around his invented language and mythology, only a small part of which could be found in The Hobbit. Since then, everyone knew who wrote The Hobbit, about Middle-earth, the dragon Smaug and Bilbo.

The Hobbit and the rural Englishman

The plot and characters of The Hobbit are inspired by the ancient heroic Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian epics that Tolkien studied while living in middle-class rural England. In many ways, the humor and charm of the novel lies in the movement of a simple rural Englishman from the 1930s into a heroic medieval setting. Tolkien acknowledged that his character, Bilbo Baggins, was modeled after a rural Englishman of the time. Tolkien was the man who wrote The Hobbit in English, drawing not only on his imagination, but also on the environment.

By the time Tolkien started working on the sequel to The Hobbit, he hadfriendship with another famous Oxford professor and writer Clive Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia. Their friendship continued for many years. Tolkien and Lewis have always been willing to critique each other's work within the Inklings, an informal writing group.

Do you know who wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings?

From 1945 to 1959 Tolkien continued to teach at Oxford and wrote the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a sequel to The Hobbit. The trilogy brought fame to Tolkien in England and America, but he was never a public figure. He continued with The Silmarillion and other tales, living a quiet life. Despite public recognition, he felt comfortable among middle-class people, where he could write and think. Tolkien died on September 2, 1973, so The Silmarillion was edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher in 1977.

The brave and determined Bilbo

The main theme of the novel "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" is the development of Bilbo as a hero. At the beginning of the book, Bilbo appears to the reader as a timid hobbit, relaxed and resting on his laurels in his safe little hole in Bag End. When Gandalf tells him to go on a journey with Thorin's dwarves, Bilbo becomes so frightened that he faints. But over the course of the novel, you can see how he progresses, coming face to face with dangers and hardships, justifying Gandalf's early claims that there is much more to this little hobbit thanseems at first glance.

Bilbo has hidden reserves of inner strength that even the hobbit himself cannot take seriously. A confrontation between trolls, the case of Gollum's ring, killing a spider, rescuing the dwarves in Mirkwood, and talking face-to-face with the great dragon Smaug all provided Bilbo with opportunities to test his resolve. Bilbo acts like a real hero, no matter what test fate gives him.

John Tolkien is the one who wrote The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, those great works. The main source of inspiration for their creation was the texts of the ancient epic (especially the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon epics, such as Beowulf), which Tolkien studied at Oxford. The books he wrote brought Tolkien a huge success and made him the "father" of modern fantasy. In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of the 50 greatest English writers since 1945.