J.R.R. Tolkien

1892–1973 · English writer, poet & philologist; author of The Lord of the Rings

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) was an English writer, poet and Oxford philologist, best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. A professor of Anglo-Saxon and English language, he built Middle-earth partly to give his invented languages a world to live in. The Aragorn poem containing this line first appeared in The Fellowship of the Ring in 1954.

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“Not all those who wander are lost”

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