J. R. R. Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", and "The Silmarillion". 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. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both
J. R. Havlan J. R. Havlan J. R. Havlan is a former writer for The Daily Show, where he won eight Emmys for Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program. Before his writing career, he was a stand-up comic who appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, not to mention numerous other TV shows not nearly as cool as those first two. Before writing for The Daily Show, Havlan did the crowd warm-up for Politically Incorrect where he also wrote for the show's monologue. J.R. was also a writer for the New York Times best-selling