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William "Willie" Charles
Renshaw was a former World No. 1 British
male tennis player active during the late 19th century. He was one of the most successful
male players in the history of the Wimbledon Championships. The right-hander was known for his power and technical ability which
put him ahead of competition at the time.
John Ronald
Reuel Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author
of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke
College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English
Language and Literature there from 1945 to 1959.[2] He was at one time a close friend
of C. S. Lewis—they 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.
Lee David
Bowyer
is an English professional footballer born in Canning Town, London, who is currently a free
agent. He has previously played for several clubs in England
including Leeds United, Charlton Athletic, West Ham United, Newcastle United
and Birmingham City. Bowyer has been capped once by England. Since 2010, Bowyer has
held the record for most yellow cards received in the Premier
League.
Billy Mehmet is an Irish professional football player who plays for
Australian A-League club Perth Glory. Born in England, Mehmet is of part English, Irish and Turkish Cypriot descent and has played
for the Republic of Ireland U21 team. Mehmet is the youngest ever
player to have played in a first team match for West Ham United in a testimonial game at Upton
Park under the guidance of Harry Redknapp at the age of 14. He was the youth
team captain at West Ham United and he was signed up by the club at 8 years old
and departed the club at the age of 19.
Sir George Henry Martin is an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"—a
title that he has described as "nonsense"—in reference to his
extensive involvement on each of The Beatles' original albums. He is considered one of the greatest record producers
of all time, with 30 number one hit singles in the UK
and 23 number one hits in the USA.
John Paul Jones (born John Baldwin; 3 January 1946) is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer. Best known as the bassist, keyboardist, and co-songwriter for English rock band Led Zeppelin, Jones has since developed a solo career.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Allmusic, Jones "has left his mark on rock & roll music history as an innovative musician, arranger, and director."
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is my favourite author. Tolkien learned Latin, French, and German from his mother, and while at school he learned Middle English, Old English, Finnish, Gothic, Greek, Italian, Old Norse, Spanish, Welsh, and Medieval Welsh. He was also familiar with Danish, Dutch, Lombardic, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish and older forms of modern Germanic and Slavonic languages, revealing his deep linguistic knowledge, above all of the Germanic languages!Parallel to Tolkien's professional work as a philologist, and sometimes overshadowing this work, to the effect that his academic output remained rather thin, was his affection for constructing languages.He constructed – to varying degrees of detail – more than twenty languages, each with a unique grammar and vocabulary. The exact number of languages constructed by Tolkien is unknown, for many of his linguistic papers are still unpublished.The Elvish language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language. The family was constructed from c. 1910. Tolkien worked on it up to his death in 1973. He constructed the grammar and vocabulary of at least fifteen Elvish languages and dialects in roughly 3 eras: 1910-c.1930 Primitive Quendian the proto-language, Common Eldarin, Quenya and Goldogrin; the middle era from c. 1935 till 1955, where Goldogrin had significantly changed and was now Noldorin, joined by Telerin, Ilkorin, Doriathrin and the Avarin. The late and mature stage dispensed with Ilkorin and Doriathrin and Noldorin matured into Sindarin.The languages of Men of Middle-earth were many, but most were only alluded to by Tolkien. He developed at least three with a grammar and a vocabulary: Taliska, Adûnaic, and the Soval Pharë ('Common Speech'), called Westron in English, spoken by Hobbits and Men in the Third Age. Other Mannish languages which were less developed included: Dalish (represented by Old Norse), Rohirric (represented by Anglo-Saxon), Rhovanion (represented by Gothic), Haladin, Dunlendish, Drûg, Haradrim, and Easterling.The secret language of the Dwarves: Khuzdul. They also used a sign language called Iglishmêk.The language of the Ents: Entish. The language of the "Powers" or Valar: Valarin.The language of the Orcs of the First Age created for them by Morgoth.The Black Speech, created by Sauron for his "empire".The many languages of the Orcs of the Third Age, often incorporating debased forms of words from the Black Speech and other languages.
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