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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer, philologist, linguist, literary critic and medievalist. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now the Free State, South Africa). His parents, Arthur Reuel Tolkien, an English bank manager, and Mabel Tolkien (Suffield), arrived in South Africa shortly before their son's birth in connection with Arthur's promotion. February 17, 1894 Arthur and Mabel had a second son, Hilary Arthur Ruel. As a child, Tolkien was bitten by a tarantula, and this event later influenced his work. The sick boy was cared for by a doctor named Thornton Quimby, and is thought to have been the model for Gandalf the Grey. In early 1895, after the death of the father of the family, the Tolkien family returned to England. Left alone with two children, Mabel asks for help from relatives. The return home was difficult - Tolkien's mother's relatives did not approve of her marriage. After the death of his father from rheumatic fever, the family settled in Sairhole, near Birmingham.
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