“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, FRSL, known by his pen name J. R. R. Tolkien, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.