He also thinked up his own languages and he was very fond of myths and fairy-tales. His mother teaches him in Greek, Latin and French. In 1900, the family moved to Birmingham so the children could go to school.

They moved to Sarehole, a small town near Birmingham. His father died when he was 3 years old, while Ronald was in England visiting his grandparents with his mother and brother. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on 3 January 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Together they try to take power over Middle Earth. There is an alliance between these towers. The Two Towers: this title refers to the tower of Barad Dur (Saurons place) and the tower of Orthanc (where Saruman lives).

He is the only one who has control over it. Lord of the Rings: Sauron is the Lord of the Rings, because he made the One Ring. Title of the work and explanation of the title. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail.Title of the work and an explanation of the title Tolkien’s great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin – alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. Jacket flap.įrodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. In fact the saga is sui generis - a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms. Donald Barr has described it as 'a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world.especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness.' The story of this world is one of high and heroic adventure. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the 'very few works of genius in recent literature.' Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth - home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving 'little people,' cheerful and shy.

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