J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic. He is best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien mistakenly believed his surname derived from the German word tollkühn, meaning “foolhardy”, and jokingly inserted himself as a...