The census report found that median household income, adjusted for inflation, was $51,017 in 2012, down about 9 percent from an inflation-adjusted peak of $56,080 in 1999, mostly as a result of the longest and most damaging recession since the Depression.
J. R. R. Tolkien was a professor at England's Oxford University and a respected scholar of medieval literature.But he is best known as the author of the fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa.At the age of three he moved with his mother to Sarehole, a village outside Birmingham, England.. R. R. Tolkien was a professor at England's Oxford University and a respected scholar of medieval literature.
In a 1999 poll of Amazon.com customers, The Lord of the Rings was judged to be their favourite book of the millennium. In 2002 Tolkien was voted the 92nd  greatest Briton  in a poll conducted by the BBC, and in 2004 he was voted 35th in the SABC3's Great South Africans, the only person to appear in both lists.n the 2003  Big Read  survey conducted by the BBC, The Lord of the Rings was found to be the UK's Best-loved Novel. Australians voted The Lord of the Rings My Favourite Book in a 2004 survey conducted by the Australian ABC.