J.R.R. Tolkien's Death
Born (Birthday) January 3, 1892
Death Date September 2, 1973
Age of Death 81 years
Cause of Death Stomach Ulcer
Profession Novelist
The novelist J.R.R. Tolkien died at the age of 81. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
English author, poet, and professor who wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He was ranked by The Times, a London newspaper, as one of the 50 greatest English authors since 1945 and he is widely considered to be the father of the modern fantasy genre.
He and his younger brother were born in South Africa to Mabel Suffield Tolkien and English banker Arthur Reuel Tolkien. J.R.R. Tolkien married Edith Mary Bratt in 1916, and she became the inspiration for several of his fantasy characters, most notably Arwen Evenstar and Luthien Tinuviel. He had three sons, Christopher, Michael, and John, and a daughter, Priscilla.