id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9478 J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia .html text/html 21489 2560 76 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (/ruːl ˈtɒlkiːn/;[a] 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. On 3 November 1920, Tolkien was demobilized and left the army, retaining his rank of lieutenant.[70] His first civilian job after World War I was at the Oxford English Dictionary, where he worked mainly on the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter W.[71] In 1920, he took up a post as reader in English language at the University of Leeds, becoming the youngest professor there.[72] While at Leeds, he produced A Middle English Vocabulary and a definitive edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with E. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9478.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9478.txt