Tolkien - The Father of Fantasy Documentary

JRR Tolkien documentary on the man behind The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and Middle-earth, from the Somme to Oxford and the Inklings. The creator of Middle-earth was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 and lost his mother in 1904. JRR Tolkien served with the Lancashire Fusiliers at the Somme in 1916, worked on the Oxford English Dictionary, taught at Leeds and in 1925 became Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, later Merton Professor of English Language and Literature.

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