Major Themes, Influences, and Artistic Style

J.R.R. Tolkien had been influenced by many ideals throughout his life. Tolkien has major themes and artistic styles that all come together in his writing. One major theme of Tolkien's is that of Middle Earth. This theme is predominately strong throughout most famous series, The Lord of The Rings. Tolkien was a very creative man and while first beginning to write, The Hobbit, "Tolkien continued developing his mythology and languages" (Doughan). "As early as 1915 he had started to develop his invented Elvish Languages of Queyna and Sindarin" (Quazen). Tolkien had four children who all required a bed time story before falling asleep. After many years of telling stories to his children, Tolkien decided that his stories and his invented languages needed a place to come together. His stories and languages came together as were known as, The Simarillion. Not only are Tolkien's major themes and influences important, but his artistic style is as well.
Tolkien's book are all of high fiction. The author tends to have a high role in high fiction in that he knows a grand amount about what he is writing about considering he created most of it. J.R.R. Tolkien tends to write in an old-fashioned english writing style. Due to his jobs at Oxford and helping writing the New English Dictionary, Tolkien's writing style follows more of the classic old-school literature. Overall, Tolkien's major themes throughout most of his books are pertaining to Middle Earth, his influences were thanks to storytelling to his four children and his wild imagination and curiosity for creating new languages, and his artistic style is that of high fiction and old english.

"It is the job that is never started that takes the longest to finish."
------- J.R.R. Tolkien

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