How Tolkien's Life Influenced His Works
How Tolkien’s Life Influenced His Writings
Thesis: John Ronald Reule Tolkien’s life experiences influenced his writing, beginning as a student, then a soldier, lexigrapher, professor, and then a writer to his own children; Tolkien’s life created the place known to most as Middle-Earth.
Introduction
Childhood
South Africa
Baboon Spider
Lack of Greenery only sand and rock
Early family life
Early love of language and Anglo-Saxon literature
Early adult life
Edith and Tolkien
Beren and Luthien
Father Morgan’s forbidding of courtship
Birmingham
Factories and machines
Machines and evil in Tolkien’s writings
World War One and Professional life
Finishing degree before joining the war
New English Dictionary
Lexicography
Academic Reader
Professorship at Oxford
Germanic Languages and Anglo-Saxon
Friendship with C.S. Lewis
Lewis’s influence on Tolkien Lewis and Tolkien and how their writing is similar
Religion
Iluvater and God
Iluvater
Biblical creation vs. The Silmarillion creation
Melkor the Morgoth compared to Satan
Melkor
Corruption by sin and corrupted Valor
Roman Catholic
Foster father, Father Morgan
Mother depended on faith after loss of husband
Conclusion
How Tolkien’s Life Influenced His Writings
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvater; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were his offspring of his thought, they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad. (Tolkien 15). This was the beginning of all things in the world created by J.R.R. Tolkien. Raised in South Africa with his mother and his father; Tolkien lived among the sand and rocks never knowing the green grass until later in his childhood. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s life experiences influenced his writing, beginning as a student, then a soldier, lexigrapher, professor, and then a writer to his own children; Born January 3, 1892
Thesis: John Ronald Reule Tolkien’s life experiences influenced his writing, beginning as a student, then a soldier, lexigrapher, professor, and then a writer to his own children; Tolkien’s life created the place known to most as Middle-Earth.
Introduction
Childhood
South Africa
Baboon Spider
Lack of Greenery only sand and rock
Early family life
Early love of language and Anglo-Saxon literature
Early adult life
Edith and Tolkien
Beren and Luthien
Father Morgan’s forbidding of courtship
Birmingham
Factories and machines
Machines and evil in Tolkien’s writings
World War One and Professional life
Finishing degree before joining the war
New English Dictionary
Lexicography
Academic Reader
Professorship at Oxford
Germanic Languages and Anglo-Saxon
Friendship with C.S. Lewis
Lewis’s influence on Tolkien Lewis and Tolkien and how their writing is similar
Religion
Iluvater and God
Iluvater
Biblical creation vs. The Silmarillion creation
Melkor the Morgoth compared to Satan
Melkor
Corruption by sin and corrupted Valor
Roman Catholic
Foster father, Father Morgan
Mother depended on faith after loss of husband
Conclusion
How Tolkien’s Life Influenced His Writings
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvater; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were his offspring of his thought, they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad. (Tolkien 15). This was the beginning of all things in the world created by J.R.R. Tolkien. Raised in South Africa with his mother and his father; Tolkien lived among the sand and rocks never knowing the green grass until later in his childhood. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s life experiences influenced his writing, beginning as a student, then a soldier, lexigrapher, professor, and then a writer to his own children; Born January 3, 1892