JRR Tolkien published a full novel, called "The Hobbit", in 1937. Quite unlike any other book in 1 English literature, the Hobbit was an extended fairy tale, an allegory set in a 2 world peopled with strange
creatures and animals. It was not the 3 of book that ought to have become a best seller in the late 1930's, but it did - so much so that the publisher
requested a sequel. Delayed by the horror of war, the first volume of Lord of the Rings eventually 4 the bookshops in 1954.
Since then, Tolkien has come to be seen as one of the most 5 figures in English literature this century, an original genius who created his own style
of literature and his own universe. So who was this 6 figure, born in the late nineteenth century in rural South Africa?
1
1) contemporary
2current
3) fashionable
4) existing
2
1) legendary
2) fairy-tail
3) mythical
4) mythological
3
1) category
2)sort
3) species
4) variety
4
1) touched
2) got
3) influenced
4) reached
5
1) vital
2) principal
3) important
4) chief
6
1) rare
2) unusual
3) uncommon
4) unfamiliar
