83 - J.R.R Tolkien
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Tolkien's Life After the War
Tolkien came down with Trench fever, a disease that was carried by Lys. Many of his dearest school friends were killed in the war. Tolkien's battalion almost completely wiped out following his return to England. His first civilian job after World War I was at the Oxford English Dictionary.
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