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Essay / Hobbit Analysis - 813
'You approach the Ranger that Butterbur called Strider. He looks to be middle-aged. He wears a tattered green hooded cape and muddy boots. “Ah, greetings traveler!” he exclaims. He removes his hood, revealing dark hair that is about to turn gray. You look at him warily. “Would you like to hear a story from a master storyteller from another age?” You nod, looking around the room again. "Good. I haven't told this one in a long time. The story involves a certain John Ronald Reuel Tolkien..."' ("...Trail")Mr. JJR Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He was inspired by the quiet life he lived in the West Midlands. Many of Tolkien's earliest memories of South Africa, including an incident in which he was bitten by a tarantula while visiting a rural district, which would later be the inspiration for the Spider-Eating Man in The Hobbit. His most notable literary works include The Hobbit. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Silmarillion. The Hobbit shares the story of Bilbo and his unwanted adventure, which he undertakes reluctantly, because "something Tookish awoke in him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains and hear the pines and the waterfalls, explore caves and carry a sword instead of a cane ("The Hobbit")Philology, the study of languages, was Tolkien's first academic passion, and his interest in linguistics inspired him to invent one. fifteen artificial languages Tolkien began creating a structurally complex language known as Quenya around 1910. Tolkien's first literary ambition was to be a poet, but his main creative urge in his youth was the invention of imaginary languages. , ("Inkling") Quenya or Qenya a precedent the name of the language was revised...... middle of paper...... He also used his quiet life in the rural hills of Europe The battle. of the Five Armies will decide who will be in power, the battle of all battles. “Inkling Books.” Inkling-Biography-JRR Tolkien. NP, 2009. Web. November 18, 2013. “JRR Tolkien: a biographical sketch”. Biography of JRR Tolkien. NP, 2002. Web. November 15, 2013. “Literature articles”. Council of Elrond RSS. Np, and Web. November 9, 2013. “The Tolkien Trail.” The Tolkien track. Np, and Web. November 17, 2013. .Tolkien, JRR The Hobbit, or there and back. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. Print.