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English writer, poet, philologist, and academic.
J. R. R. Tolkien
 was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works 
how old was bilbo when he found the ring 60 years old. does he appear in any fictional work? The title character and protagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel "The Hobbit", a supporting character in "The Lord of the Rings", and the fictional narrator of all Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. what is his role in these stories? Was a hobbit .
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J. R. R. Tolkien [SEP] Introduction
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as The Inklings.