Career

J.R.R. Tolkien was a man of many recognitions. Although some of his recognitions may be inner recognicition, he is still recognized none the less. Throughout his career, Tolkien had many careers. "He served in the military, fighting in the trenches of WWI" (BBC). "He was sent to France in June 1916 to join the 11th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers as a signals officer" (Wallace). After the war, he worked for two years as an assistant for the Oxford English Dictionary. "He then took as Reader of the English Language at Leeds, where he later rose to Proffesor of English Language" (BBC). "In 1925, he was eleceted to Rawlinson and Bosworth chair of Anglo Saxon at Oxford. Tolkien's major academic achievement in this period was his British Academy lecture entitled, 'Beowulf: the monsters and the critics'" (Wallace). The lecture that Tolkien recited was that of the study of the poem and a different take on the look of Beowulf. While in his 24 year span at Oxford, Tolkien began telling his children bedtime stories about a creature named Bibo. Tolkien eventually ran with the idea and begane his first book, The Hobbit.
Tolkien wrote many stories in his long and prosperous life, most of which pertain to the Middle Earth. Some of Tolkiens works that deal with Middle Earth are: "The Book of Lost Tales One, The Book of Lost Tales Two, The Return of the Shadow, and The War of The Jewels" (BBC). Some of Tolkiens works not dealing with Middle Earth are: "The Tolkien Reader, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham, and The Father Christmas Letters" (BBC). Originally, The Lord of The Rings Trilogy was actually one major book that was later broken down into three books, The Fellowship of The Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of The King. "In the 1970's, animated versions of the book were made. Recently, Peter Jackson's The Lord of The Rings Trilogy of films were a critically acclaimed success" (Wallace). Three other major works of Tolkien's that have been broken down into many smaller stories are: The Salimarillion, Unfinished Tales, and History of Middle-Earth.
Overall, although Tolkien himself may not have won many awards, his books and his earlier work through the many colleges he has worked at have won many.

---"You can only come to the morning through the shadows." ----
J.R.R. Tolkien (Thinkexist)

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