J. R. R. Tolkien Influences

J. R. R. Tolkien As a great revolutionary writer J. R. R. Tolkien created a new style of fiction and how books should be written. Throughout Tolkien’s life Having a rough childhood, Tolkien became an orphan by age fourteen but his love for words and language given by his mother did not stop. As Tolkien aged over the years his love for writing continued as he created writing clubs and learned many languages. These steps led him to write two great and well known literary works, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. Growing up Tolkien was influenced by many people to become who he was and what he did. Tolkien was especially influenced by his mother at a young age to love words and language which continued throughout his life even though his
Tolkien’s love for storytelling, words, and language led him to write his burnable fiction, The Hobbit. The success of The Hobbit was overwhelming and Tolkien was asked to write a sequel and his result was Lord of the Rings, a trilogy. Tolkien’s work received big amounts of criticism because of how revolutionary they were containing allegory and being a fantasy. The Hobbit was criticised because allegory was not used much and when people wanted to learn from things they preferred written document such as history not themes or morales learned from a fantasy book. Many authors disliked The Lord of the Rings it was said it was fantasy for its own sake, so many authors did not write fantasy novels so it was looked down by the authors but the public called it revolutionary.
With such great novels Tolkien received many awards such as being made Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth Tolkien also received the New York Herald Tribune Children’s Spring Book Festival Award for The Hobbit and the International Fantasy award in 1957 for The Lord of the