Sixth Grade
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Top 10 Interesting Facts about J.R.R. Tolkien and His Works
J.R.R. Tolkien
Reading Comprehension for January 8
1. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (pronounced tol-keen) was born on January 3, 1892, and died on September 2, 1973.
2. Mr. Tolkien is perhaps best known for his novels, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
3. Mr. Tolkien began his extensive journey of creating a mythological world and characters by writing a simple sentence on a blank page. That sentence was "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." From there, he answered his own questions about what hobbits were, where they resided, who they interacted with, and how they talked.
