"The Lord of the Rings", one of the best sellers in the new millennium , was made up of three parts--"The Fellow Ship of the Ring", "Two Towers", and "The Return of the King". Millions upon millions of people have read it in over 25 different languages, but fewer know about the author and the history of the composition of the creative masterwork. 

John Ronald Refuel Tolkien was born in South Africa in 1892. His parents died when he was a child. Living in England with his aunt, Tolkien and his cousins made up play languages, a hobby that led to Tolkien's becoming skilled in Welsh, Greek, Gothic, Old Norse and Anglo--Saxon. 

After graduating from Oxford, Tolkien served in World War I. In 1917, while recovering from trench fever he began composing the mythology for The Rings. As a professor of Anglo-Saxon in the 1930s at Oxford, Tolkien was part of an informal discussion group called the Inklings, which included several writers. The group was soon 1istening to chapters of Tolkien's imaginative work "The Hobbit". 

Hobbit was a name Tolkien created for people that could best be described as half-sized members of the English rural class. Hobbits live in hillside holes. One of them,Bilbo Baggins, looks for treasures with a group of dwarves . On the way, he meets the twisted, pitiful creature Gollum, from whom he sees a golden ring that makes the holder invisible. 

One of Tolkien's students persuaded her employer, publisher Allen & Unwind, to look at a draft . The chairman of the firm, Stanley Unwind, thought that the best judge for a Children's book would be his ten-year-old son. The boy earned a shilling for reporting back that the adventure was exciting, and "The Hobbit" was published in 1937. 

It sold so well that Unwind asked for a continuation. Over a dozen years later, in 1954, Tolkien produced "The Lord of the Rings", a series of books so creative that they hold readers both new and old -- after their publication. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who penned the Lord of the Rings?
2. What is the name of the man who wrote the Lord of the Rings?
3. What was the author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy called?
Q2:
1. What was the year of JRR Tolkien's birth?
2. In what year was JRR Tolkien born?
3. When was JRR Tolkien born?
Q3:
1. In what country was JRR Tolkien born?
2. What country did JRR Tolkien originally come from?
3. Where is JRR Tolkien from?
Q4:
1. Who was JRR Tolkien raised by?
2. What family member raised JRR Tolkien?
3. Who was JRR Tolkien brought up by?
Q5:
1. What would JRR Tolkien and his cousins do for fun?
2. What did JRR Tolkien and his cousins do to pass the time?
3. How would JRR Tolkien and his cousins amuse themselves?
Q6:
1. What languages was JRR Tolkien taught?
2. What real languages did JRR Tolkien learn to speak?
3. What were the real languages that JRR Tolkien came to speak?
Q7:
1. What are the three books that make up the Lord of the Rings triology?
2. What three books is the Lord of the Rings composed of?
3. What three volumes are a part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Q8:
1. What university did JRR Tolkien attend?
2. Where did JRR Tolkien go to school?
3. At what university was JRR Tolkien a student?
Q9:
1. Did JRR Tolkien leave Oxford without a diploma?
2. Did JRR Tolkien quit Oxford before graduating?
3. Did JRR Tolkien choose not to finish his studies at Oxford?
Q10:
1. What subject did JRR Tolkien teach?
2. What was JRR Tolkien a professor of?
3. What subject did JRR Tolkien give classes in?
Q11:
1. What was the name of JRR Tolkien's discussion group?
2. What was the discussion group that Tolkien participated in called?
3. What did JRR Tolkien's discussion group call themselves?
Q12:
1. Give a description of the hobbits.
2. What kind of creatures were the hobbits?
3. What did a hobbit look like, according to Tolkien?
Q13:
1. Was a hobbit the same thing as a dwarf?
2. Were dwarves and hobbits identical to each other?
3. Were hobbits described as a kind of dwarf?
Q14:
1. Where did the hobbits make their homes?
2. Where did th hobbits live?
3. What was the location of the hobbit homes?
Q15:
1. Who is the hobbit that JRR Tolkien wrote about?
2. What was the name of an important hobbit?
3. Who is the hobbit that went on an adventure in JRR Tolkien's novel?
Q16:
1. What frightening creature did Bilbo Baggins meet?
2. What frightful creature did Bilbo Baggins encounter?
3. What was the sorrowful being encountered by Bilbo Baggins?
Q17:
1. How much was the editor's child given for reviewing The Hobbit?
2. How much did the young child make for his review of The Hobbit?
3. What sum was the editor's child given for his review of The Hobbit?
