"John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, as he was christened, was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa in 1892," (http://www.indepthinfo.com/tolkien/biography.shtml). Tolkien spent a majority of his youth in South Africa where he was bitten by a tarantula. These memories supposedly influenced many of his later works. After maturing a bit in South Africa, Tolkien moved to England with his mother and brother, leaving the father to follow within months. The father however; died of fever and was not able to make it back to England. Shorty before beginning college studies at Oxford, his mother passed. This sorrow and reflection of life and death carried over into his studies and later works.
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