“There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.Rate it:(0.00 / 0 votes)

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (pronounced /etelkien/) (3 January 1892 - 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

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