J. R. R. Tolkien

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/j-r-r-tolkien

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was J. R. R. Tolkien born?January 3, 1892
2. Where was J. R. R. Tolkien born?Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa
3. When did J. R. R. Tolkien die?September 2, 1973 (age 81)
4. What is the career?Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University; influential literary scholar and novelist

Philology: The study of language in historical sources, a core academic discipline for Tolkien that informed his creative work.
Secondary World: A fictional world created by an author that possesses its own consistent history, geography, and mythology.
Mythopoeia: The creation of myths; Tolkien's process of building the history and lore of Middle-earth.