J.R.R. Tolkien is primarily an author and writer. One of his earliest careers consists of serving in World War I. His experiences resulted in Trench fever taking him out of the battle. Once away, he began writing a series of fairy tales called The Book of Lost Tales. This series apparently paralleled in correlation to the deaths of those he fought with and described the horror of the war. Tolkien's life experiences combined with his superior intelligence in the manipulation of words helped him succeed in any story he indulged to write. "Tolkien was an accomplished scholar with professorships in English Language and Literature as well as Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, and was an expert in word origins, mythology, and languages including Old English, Old Norse, and Finnish. In total he has some forty books to his credit and is regarded as one of the most popular authors of all time," (http://www.nndb.com/people/511/000022445/). Several of his books became best sellers, including The Hobbit and the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.
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