Who is Tolkien John Ronald Reuel?Even children, and first of all they, know that this is the creator of the famous “Hobbit”. In Russia, his name became very popular with the release on the screen of the cult film. In the writer's homeland, his works became famous in the mid-60s, when a million copies of The Lord of the Rings proved to be insufficient for a student audience. For thousands of young English-speaking readers, the hobbit story Frodo has become a favorite. The work, which was created by John Tolkien, bought up faster than the “Lord of the Flies” and “The Catcher in the Rye”.
Meanwhile, in New York, youths were running withself-made badges that read, “Long live Frodo!” and everything is in that spirit. A fashion for organizing hobbit-style parties appeared among young people. Tolkien societies were created.
But the books that John Tolkien wrote were not readonly students. Among his fans were housewives, rocket men, and pop stars. Solid fathers of families discussed the trilogy in the London beer.
Tell about who the author was in real lifeFantasy John Tolkien, not easy. The author of the cult books himself was convinced that the true life of the writer is contained in his works, and not in the facts of the biography.
Tolkien John Ronald Reuel was born in 1892 inSouth Africa. There, by occupation, was the father of the future writer. In 1895 his mother left for England with him. And a year later came the message, reporting the death of his father.
Ronald's childhood (this is how the writer was calledrelatives and friends) passed in the suburbs of Birmingham. At four he began to read. And only a few years later he experienced an unspeakable desire to study ancient languages. Latin for Ronald was like music. And the pleasure of studying it could only be compared with reading myths and heroic legends. But, as John Tolkien later admitted, these books existed in insufficient quantities in the world. Such literature was too small to satisfy his reading needs.
At school, besides Latin and French, RonaldHe also studied German and Greek. He rather early became interested in the history of languages and comparative philology, attended literary circles, studied Gothic and Icelandic languages, and even tried to create new ones. Such hobbies, unusual for adolescents, predetermined his fate.
In 1904, the mother died. Thanks to the care of the spiritual guardian, Ronald was able to continue his studies at Oxford University. His specialty was the history of the English language.
When the war began, Ronald studied at the lastcourse. And after the brilliant passing of the final exams, he volunteered for the army. The share of junior lieutenant fell several months of the bloody battle at Somme, and then two years in hospital with a diagnosis of trench fever.
After the war, he worked on compiling a dictionary,then received the title of professor of English. In 1925, his account of one of the ancient German legends was published, and in the summer of the same year, John Tolkien was invited to Oxford. He was too young by the standards of a famous university: only 34 years old. However, John Tolkien, whose biography is no less interesting than books, had a wealth of life experience and brilliant works in philology.
By this time, the writer was no longer just married,but he had three sons. At night, when the family chores were over, he continued the mysterious work begun as a student, the story of a magical country. Over time, the legend was filled with more and more details, and John Tolkien felt that he was obliged to tell this story to others.
In 1937 the fairy tale "The Hobbit" was released, bringingThe author of unprecedented fame. The popularity of the book was so great that publishers asked the writer to create a sequel. Then Tolkien began work on his epic. But the saga of three parts came out only after eighteen years. Tolkien all his life developing an artificial language. Completion of the elf dialect is underway today.
Hobbits are incredibly charming creatures,resembling children. They combine frivolity and stamina, ingenuity and innocence, sincerity and cunning. And oddly enough, these characters give the world, created by Tolkien, credibility.
The protagonist of the first story of Bilbo Bagginsconstantly risks to get out of the whirlpool of all kinds of misadventures. He has to be bold and inventive. With this image, Tolkien seems to be telling his young readers about the infinite possibilities that they possess. And one more feature of Tolkien characters is love of freedom. Hobbits are fine without leaders.
Why was the professor of Oxford so impressed by the minds of modern readers? What are his books telling about?
The works of Tolkien are dedicated to the eternal.And the components of this seemingly abstract concept are good and evil, duty and honor, great and small. In the center of the plot is a ring, which is nothing more than a symbol and tool of unlimited power, that is, about what almost every person secretly dreams of.
This topic is at all times very relevant.Everyone wants power and is confident that they know with accuracy how to properly dispose of it. Tyrants and other terrible personalities in history, as contemporaries believe, are stupid and unfair. But those who wish to acquire power today will supposedly be wiser, more humane and more humane. And maybe it will make the whole world happier.
Only the heroes of Tolkien refuse to ring.There are kings and brave warriors, mysterious magicians and all-knowing sages, beautiful princesses and gentle elves in the work of the English writer, but in the end they all bow down before a simple hobbit who was able to fulfill his duty and was not seduced by power.
In recent years, the writer has been surrounded by universalrecognition, received the title of doctor of literature. Tolkien died in 1973, and four years later the final version of The Silmarillion was published. The work was completed by the writer's son.
