J.R.R. Tolkien was an author and he got famous through his books The Hobbit and the books of the trilogy The Lord of the Rings.
Some of the parts from the books he has written are based on real life experienes he had. Like this example from The Hobbit: In 1911, Tolkien went on a summer holiday in Switzerland, a trip that he recollects vividly in a 1968 letter, noting that Bilbo's journey across the Misty Mountains ("including the glissade down the slithering stones into the pine woods") is directly based on his adventures as their party of 12 hiked from Interlaken to Lauterbrunnen and on to camp in the Moraines beyond Mürren. Fifty-seven years later, Tolkien remembered his regret at leaving the view of the eternal snows of Jungfrau and Silberhorn ("the Silvertine of my dreams"). They went across the Kleine Scheidegg to Grindelwald and on across the Grosse Scheidegg to Meiringen. They continued across the Grimsel Pass, through the upper Valais to Brig and on to the Aletsch glacier and Zermatt. But other parts he just fantasized and used his imagination for thinking new ideas. The works Tolkien has done are quite a lot. He wrote for example high-epic fantasy books, like The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, or he wrote Children books, with a lot of imagination, or he wrote fiction books, like Beowulf. |