Tolkien, J.R.R.
From Astro-Databank
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| Birthname | Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel | ||
| born on | 3 January 1892 at 22:00 (= 10:00 PM ) | ||
| Place | Bloemfontein, South Africa, 29s12, 26e07 | ||
| Timezone | LMT m26e07 (is local mean time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   12°59'   00°46 Asc. 05°50'
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Biography
British linguist born in South Africa, a scholar and famed author of the best-selling trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings." He was noted for his twists of fantasy of war between good and evil, even though he denied it was allegorical. The world he created - secret tongues, weird species, lost hamlets, invisible mountains of arcana - became the cultural locus for everything from "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" to Led Zeppelin stomps and the games of Dungeon and Dragons and Myst.
Tolkien was a professor for 34 years at Oxford University, ordinary, frumpy and comfortable in his daily routine while his fantasy world was peopled by adventures. He was raised in South Africa until the age of four, when his dad died and his mom took him and his brother to England. In 1904 she died of diabetes and the boys were left in the care of kin. At 16, he met and fell in love with an older girl, Edith Bratt. They were later to marry, in 1916, and have four kids. The two great loves in his life were Edith - and words, first writing "The Hobbit" for his own children and it was published in 1937. The second book was 17 years later, the hulking trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings."
He and Edith were a close couple up to her death at 82, in 1971. Tolkien died of complications of an ulcer and chest infection on 9/02/1973, Bournemouth, England.
The long-anticipated first film in the Tolkien saga is being
released 12/19/2001 in 10,000 theaters around the world, amid a flurry of critical raves.
Link to Astrodienst discussion forum
Events
- Death, Cause unspecified 2 September 1973 (Age 81)
Source Notes
Penfield Collection quotes H. Carpenter "Tolkien" which quotes a letter by his father on p.12, "We ... fetched the doctor about eight and then he stayed till 12:40 when we drank a whiskey." Ruth Dewey rectified to 10:50 PM LMT. Old-file has 5:20 AM LMT.
Paul F. Newman quotes "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien," edited by Humphrey Carpenter, London: HarperCollins 1955 p.183; rectified to 11:08 PM LMT, The Mountain Astrologer Feb/Mar 2002.
Steinbrecher quotes a letter from the University at Orange Free State Dept of Genetics, "Tolkien was born during the day on a Sunday."
Categories
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 81)
- Notable : Book Collection : American Book
- Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Imagination (Famed writer)
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
- Vocation : Writers : Sci-Fi/ Fantasy/ Horror (Master of fantasy)
