![]() ![]() He was planning to join them but never made it - falling ill and dying of a severe brain hemorrhage (a complication of rheumatic fever) on February 15, 1896. ![]() At the age of three, Tolkien and his mother and younger brother left for their homeland while Arthur stayed behind to settle the business. Tolkien’s childhood in Africa was cut short when his mother decided the boys would be better educated in their native England. Not long after, another son Hilary was born, completing the Tolkien family. ![]() John Ronald Reuel (known as “Ronald” to most) was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa on January 3, 1892. Here, Arthur had high hopes of advancing his career and providing a comfortable life for their budding family. Formative Yearsīefore bank clerk Arthur Tolkien and Mabel Suffield welcomed their son into the world, the English couple moved to South Africa. But who was the creator of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings? Today on Biographics we explore the life of J.R.R. ![]()
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But then her world and her dreams shattered when she found out that not only was her boyfriend cheating on her but the only other person she trusted more than him had also betrayed her. ![]() Her life should have been consumed by thoughts of her best friend’s wedding. When Angela Clark is first introduced to readers in ‘I Heart New York’, the first book in the ‘I Heart’ series, her life is pretty good, or as good as she can expect it to be at that point in her life.Īngela has good friends and a hubby that loves her. The books chronicle the exploits of a British girl who gets her heart broken and runs off to the United States. I Heart is a series of contemporary romance novels written by Lindsey Kelk. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Alderton’s rendering, adulthood is one long, bittersweet bout of nostalgia – for loves lost and old friends, and for childhood and fantasies left unfulfilled. 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