Problem: 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.Lewisthey were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.

After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including "The Silmarillion". These, together with "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term "legendarium" to the larger part of these writings.

While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literatureor, more precisely, of high fantasy. In 2008, "The Times" ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". "Forbes" ranked him the 5th top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009.
1. Who is featured in this article?
2. What work is he famous for?
3. Can you name one?
4. Were there others?
5. They were?
6. Isn't there another?
7. Where is he from?
8. What famous writer is he friends with?
9. What organization did they belong to?
10. How is he popularly known these days?
11. When was he born?
12. Is he still living?
13. When did he die?
14. What year?
15. Besides writing, what else did he do?
16. What was his profession?
17. What was the name of the place his writings were about?
18. What was another name associated with this world?
19. How was he ranked by the Times?
20. Sixth what?
Answer: 1. ohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien
2. classic high-fantasy works
3. The Hobbit
4. yes
5. The Lord of the Rings
6. yes
7. england
8. C.S.Lewis
9. Inklings
10. father" of modern fantasy literature
11. 3 January 1892
12. no
13. 2 September
14. 1973
15. tales, poems
16. English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor
17. Arda
18. Middle-earth
19. sixth
20. he 50 greatest British writers

Problem: CHAPTER XXII

THE REFUGEE'S RETURN

Sabatini's attitude of indolence lasted only until they had turned from the waterway into the main river. Then he sat up and pointed a little way down the stream.

"Can you cross over somewhere there?" he asked.

Arnold nodded and punted across towards the opposite bank.

"Get in among the rushes," Sabatini directed. "Now listen to me."

Arnold came and sat down.

"You don't mean to tire me," he remarked.

Sabatini smiled.

"Do you seriously think that I asked you to bring me on the river for the pleasure of watching your prowess with that pole, my friend?" he asked. "Not at all. I am going to ask you to do me a service."

Arnold was suddenly conscious that Sabatini, for the first time since he had known him, was in earnest. The lines of his marble-white face seemed to have grown tenser and firmer, his manner was the manner of a man who meets a crisis.

"Turn your head and look inland," he said. "You follow the lane there?"

Arnold nodded.

"Quite well," he admitted.

"At the corner," Sabatini continued, "just out of sight behind that tall hedge, is my motor car. I want you to land and make your way there. My chauffeur has his instructions. He will take you to a village some eight miles up the river, a village called Heslop Wood. There is a boat-builder's yard at the end of the main street. You will hire a boat and row up the river. About three hundred yards up, on the left hand side, is an old, dismantled-looking house-boat. I want you to board it and search it thoroughly."
1. What were they trying to do?
2. Who has been lazy?
3. Did they go to the water for fun?
4. Why then?
5. Who did he ask?
6. What surprised him?
7. Who was he to find?
8. Where was he to go?
9. How far away?
10. Was that his final destination?
11. What was he to do next?
12. Was it a powerboat?
13. What color was the lazy man's face?
14. How far was he to travel up river?
15. Was his destination on the right?
16. What was his destination?
17. What was he supposed to do there?
18. For what?
Answer:
1. to get to the other side of the hedge.
2. Sabatini
3. no
4. to do a service."
5. Arnold
6. that Sabatini for the first time was in earnest
7. his chauffeur
8. to a village
9. some eight miles
10. no
11. hire a boat
12. no
13. marble-white
14. About three hundred yards
15. no
16. a house-boat
17. search it thoroughly
18. unknown