Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien was born on Jan 3, 1892
JRR Tolkien, the author of Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion among other books, was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Tolkien developed and refined over ten languages during his lifetime, including fictional languages used in his novels and obscurely used languages. Most of Tolkien's works were published by his son posthumously.