Read the text. Match the information. On January 3, 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Tolkien settled near Birmingham, England at the age of
four after his father, a banker died in South Africa. He went to school at King Edward's School in Birmingham and Exeter College. He later
studied English language and literature at Oxford where he received a B.A. in 1915 and M.A. in 1919. Tolkien married his long time love, Edith
Bratt in 1916. He served in the army briefly during World War I as a second lieutenant. After the War, Tolkien's first civilian job was at The New
English Dictionary better known as Oxford English Dictionary today where he worked on the history of words of Germanic origin. He spent
most of his life teaching English language and literature at renowned universities such as Leeds (1920-1925) and Oxford (1925-1959). His
influential 1936 lecture, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics opened new doors to research on Beowulf.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born
King Edward's School in Birmingham and Exeter College
He went to school
South Africa, Birmingham.
his father, a banker died in
Bloemfontein, South Africa.​

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