J.R.R. Tolkien
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Professorship - He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1959.

Inklings - He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis - they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings.

Major writings - After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion.
These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda and Middle-earth within it.
Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings.
While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre.
This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature - or, more precisely, of high fantasy.

Accolades - In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Forbes ranked him the fifth top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009.

Honors - Tolkien was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1972 New Year Honours and received the insignia of the Order at Buckingham Palace on 28 March 1972.
In the same year Oxford University conferred upon him an honorary Doctorate of Letters.

Trivia - As a child, Tolkien was bitten by a large baboon spider in the garden, an event some think later echoed in his stories, although he admitted no actual memory of the event and no special hatred of spiders as an adult.
In another incident, a young family servant, who thought Tolkien a beautiful child, took the baby to his kraal to show him off, returning him the next morning.

Personal life - At the age of 16, Tolkien met Edith Mary Bratt, who was three years his senior.
His guardian, Father Morgan, considered it unfortunate" that his surrogate son was romantically involved with an older, Protestant woman.
He prohibited him from meeting, talking to, or even corresponding with her until he was 21.
On the evening of his 21st birthday, Tolkien wrote to Edith, declaring that he had never ceased to love her.
Edith Bratt and Ronald Tolkien were formally engaged at Birmingham in January 1913, and married at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick, on 22 March 1916.
In his 1941 letter to Michael, Tolkien expressed admiration for his wife's willingness to marry a man with no job, little money, and no prospects except the likelihood of being killed in the Great War.

Offsprings - The Tolkiens had four children: John Francis Reuel Tolkien, Michael Hilary Reuel Tolkien, Christopher John Reuel Tolkien and Priscilla Mary Anne Reuel Tolkien.

Retirement - During his life in retirement, from 1959 up to his death in 1973, Tolkien received steadily increasing public attention and literary fame.
In 1961, his friend C. S. Lewis even nominated him for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Fan attention became so intense that Tolkien had to take his phone number out of the public directory, and eventually he and his wife Edith moved to Bournemouth, which was then a seaside resort patronized by the British upper middle class.

Death -Tolkien's wife Edith died in 1971, at the age of 82, two years prior to Tolkien's death in 1973.

Net worth - Tolkien's will was proven on 20 December 1973, with his estate valued at £190,577 (equivalent to ~$3,000,000 in 2020).
Forbes has the Tolkien estate valued currently at $500 million dollars.