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J. R. R. Tolkien

1892 - 1973

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945 Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He then moved within the same university to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, and held these positions from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. R. R. Tolkien is the 6th most popular writer (up from 7th in 2019), the most popular biography from South Africa (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular South African Writer.

J.R.R. Tolkien is most famous for writing the novel "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

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Among writers, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 6 out of 7,302. Before him are Homer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. After him are Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, and Voltaire.

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Among people born in 1892, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 1. After him are Haile Selassie, Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, Edward Victor Appleton, Louis de Broglie, Mary Pickford, Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, and Manfred von Richthofen. Among people deceased in 1973, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 2. Before him is Pablo Picasso. After him are Bruce Lee, Pablo Neruda, David Ben-Gurion, Salvador Allende, Erich von Manstein, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Lyndon B. Johnson, Pearl S. Buck, Fulgencio Batista, and W. H. Auden.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 1 out of 454. After him are Nelson Mandela (1918), Elon Musk (1971), Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Sarah Baartman (1788), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Desmond Tutu (1931), Miriam Makeba (1932), Shaka (1787), and Christiaan Barnard (1922).

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Among writers born in South Africa, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 1. After him are J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Athol Fugard (1932), Alan Paton (1903), and Deon Meyer (1958).

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