Author's Purpose:

 ​J.R.R. Tolkien was born in 1892, and had a very normal childhood. He had a great fascination in made up languages, and with some of his siblings he made several.  However, by the time he was in college, World War One began. Unlike his friends, he did not immediately join the military. He went into a program that enabled him to finish his college courses before joining the military. He eventually joined, and during the war is when his stories began to take shape. As he was mourning one of his friends, His stories unfolded in front of him. After world war 1, He returned to Oxford as a professor While he was  grading exams, he noticed that a student had left one of his writing portions empty. Out of some odd compulsion, He wrote: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit“. Here he began his journey to find what a "hobbit" was and what kind of hole it lived and why. This spawned the 'Hobbit' series (which is the prequel to the lord of the rings series). It was very popular with the publishing company that had found the work. The publishing Company asked him to make more material for series. This had him working on the world of Middle Earth. It was a place of magic and wonder, Adventure and treasure. But it also war-torn, and filled with conflict between good and evil.​Which represents his life, and his struggle through the first world war. Each situation has a loose tying to events in his life. ​He's trying to relay a story of realistic, life-like struggle within a fantasy universe.