John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known as JRR Tolkien, was born on 3 January 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa and was the son of Arthur and Mabel Suffield Tolkien. After his father's death in 1896, Tolkien's mother moved with her two sons, JRR (then called Ronald) and his younger brother Hilary to Sarehole near Birmingham. When Tolkien was twelve his mother died and he and his brother were sent to live with one of their relatives when a Catholic priest became their legal guardian. (biography.com JRR Tolkien linguist and author) At the start of the First World War Tolkien did not immediately rush to join the war. Instead he remained at Oxford and graduated in 1915. During the period before his entry into the war Tolkien continued his attempts at poetry and also worked on the languages ​​he created. Tolkien eventually signed up. When Tolkien joined he was at the rank of Second Lieutenant and was subsequently stationed in Staffordshire in England where he eventually married Edith Bratt in the town of Warwick in 1916. Shortly after their marriage Tolkien was deployed to the Western Front in France. During his time in France, Tolkien was involved in the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles of the war with over a million casualties in total. (Harris) After the Battle of the Somme Tolkien developed trench fever and was sent home to recover. During this period most of his closest colleagues were killed in the war. During the next two years Tolkien began to write more and more and the stories he wrote during this period were later published as part of the Book of Lost Tales where he told many of the most important stories of the Silmarillion for the first time and...... in the center of the paper......he pays attention to himself when he falls and the ring slips off his finger making him invisible. Works Cited "John Ronald Ruel Tolkien." 2014. The Biography Channel website. April 06, 2014, 04:06 am http://www.biography.com/people/jrr-tolkien-9508428."JRR Tolkien Biography - Tolkien's Life." Tolkien News RSS. Np, nd Web. 06 April 2014.Pettinger, Tejvan. "Biography of JRR Tolkien", Oxford, www.biographyonline.net, 12 January 2007Harris, Shell. "Top 10 Deadliest Battles of World War I - Toptenz.net."Toptenz.net. January 28, 2011. Web. April 21, 2014. Doughan, David. "Who was Tolkien?" The Tolkien Society. The Tolkien Society. Network. April 20, 2014.St. Clair, Gloriana, "An Overview of Northern Influences on Tolkien's Works" (1995). University Libraries Research.Paper 99."Christian Elements and Symbols in Tolkien." Christianity.com. Network. April 21. 2014.