Welcome to the Middle Earth

Today I have the opportunity to talk about something I like. And I really love the stories written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

For me, he is the biggest and best writer in the history. He wrote a lot of things about Middle Earth, that is the fictional continent where happen the stories of "The Silmarillion", "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."

Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein and died on 2 September 1973. During his life, he served in the First World War, had a distinguished academic career and was a professor of literature, Anglo-Saxon and English in the University of Oxford.

Tolkien was a Catholic and a lover of mythology; both elements are fused and used by the author in his books. If you read any book, you look that the stories talk about a fight between “good and evil” or between the different races, who want to destroy the ring against the forces of Sauron. And there are many elements that can be linked to the Catholic religion with a conception of God, as in the creation of Middle Earth in "The Silmarillion ". In addition, it is obvious the influence of mythology to create Middle Earth, their characters and stories. Within the same books, the characters narrate legends and myths from the past. Too, he was a great expert in linguistics, and knew several languages. And he invented many artificial languages for write his books, such as “quenya” (language of the noldor) and the “sindarin” (language of the sindar).

About “The Silmarillion”: Is a compilation of various writings of Tolkien's Middle Earth. The book talks about the history of the Middle Earth, the creation of Arda en the origin of the different races. This book has a five parts: “Ainulindale” (the creation of Ea and Arda), “Valaquenta” (the

 history of valar), “Quenta Silmarillion” (the history of the begin of the times until the First Age of the Sun), “Akallabeth” (history of the Second Gge of the Sun) and “About the rings of power and the Third Age of the Sun”              

About “The Hobbit”: is the history written by Bilbo Baggins. Here he narrated his adventure with Gandalf and a group of dwarfs, where they recovered a treasure guarded by the dragon Smaug. In this adventure is where Bilbo discovers and takes the Ring.

About “The Lord of the Ring”: is the history of Frodo Baggins and his adventure for destroy the Ring. This is divided into three parts; “The Fellowship of the Ring”, “The Two Towers” and “”The Return of the King”.

This three books are the most popular of Tolkien, but he wrote a lot of the others things. And I like Tolkien because his book make me travel to the Middle Earth, and I like think that I am a character into the history.

I think that my favorite book is "The Lord of the Rings", because is the  longest of the books and because it has a complex story full of obstacles, but where Frodo finally achieve his mission. Also, I like it because there are different races and many characters with their own characteristics. It is a story where the races of humans, elves, dwarves, and hobbits were unite to defeat Sauron. It is a story where each character plays an important role, in the case of the characters that help Frodo in his mission, each representing a virtue or a value that is relevant within the mission. Too, I like the movie "The Lord of the Rings" by Peter Jackson.

 Tolkien was really creative to invent all this wonderful and long history, he invented a lot of places, characters, languages​​, and maps of Middle Earth. He devoted much of his life in this masterpiece. For me, he is really a genius.