ISBN: 9780345339706 | 4.16 “W x 6.86 “H x 1.01 “D | 480 pages | 8 Oz
“John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. After serving in World War I, he embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest philologists in the world. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. He is, however, beloved throughout the world as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic works as The Hobbitand The Lord of the Rings. He died on September 2, 1973, at the age of eighty-one.” From Penguin Random House