Happy Birthday to the father of high fantasy literature, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who lived January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973 (see image). Tolkien was so many things to the world, author, academic, student, professor, philologist, linguist, poet, and chief influence upon the world of fantasy fiction writing today. He created his own languages, complete with grammar rules and all. He created a world, Middle-earth, that was more than a mere map with some cultural hot spots, but an entire believable universe that feels so real, one can hardly believe that it does not exist at some point in our own universe's history.
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