10 Things You Might Not Know About JRR Tolkien

10 Things You Might Not Know About J.R.R. Tolkien

There are plenty of things even the most ardent fans don't know about John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. 1. He had a flair for the dramatic. As a linguist and expert on Old English and Old Norse literature, Tolkien was a professor at Oxford University from 1925 until 1959.

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Guys... I just learned that JRR Tolkien had "Beren" engraved below his name and "Luthien" engraved below his wife's name on their shared headstone.

That is the most nerdily romantic thing I have ever heard.

Mental Floss was right. I did not know that.