Tolkien took up his course at King Edwards School, thus, his family moved to a hamlet called Moseley in Birmingham nearest to his school. His mother Mabel, moved many times with her children. However, Tolkien got a scholarship to King Edwards School and decided to continue his studies there, in 1903. Unfortunately, their mother Mabel, died in 1904 and they were left to the care of a priest at the Oxford Oratory; Father Francis Morgan. In 1908, Tolkien began his first term at Oxford University.

In 1915, Tolkien graduated from Oxford with a First in English Language and Literature. He got married in 1916 with Edith Bratt who was an old love of him. She gave him four children; the first son, John was born in 1917, the second one, Michael was born in 1918, the third one, Christopher was born in 1924 and the last one was a girl, Priscilla, born in 1929.

Tolkien worked as an assistant on the Oxford English Dictionary, taught at the University of Leeds and became a Professor of English Language at the same university. He also taught Anglo-Saxon when he and his family moved to Oxford, there he became fellow of Pembroke College.

After the birth of Priscilla in 1929, he began some stories and myths about Middle-Earth that became the book "The Silmarillion". It was in 1933 when he started telling some stories of a hobbit called Bilbo to his children, so he got the idea to write "The Hobbit", it was released in 1937 by Stanley Unwin, later he asked a sequel for "The Hobbit". The first parts of LOTR was published in 1954 and the titles were; "The Fellowship" and "The Two Towers". A year later the third part was published with the title; "The Return of the King".

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien retired as a teacher at the Oxford University in 1959. His wife was suffering some health problems and she died in 1971. Tolkien died on September 2, 1973 when he was eighty-one years old. Christopher published "The Silmarillion", later on

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