Who is credited with inventing the fictional races that we play in Everquest?

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Tolkien was a linguist who studied some very old languages. He worked with some that used runes such as the old norse language. He basically was reading the earliest forms of what became English. When we study the history of writing we find some of the oldest written works which have survived the events of the past were mythology. It isn't surprising since these were considered religious works of their cultures. Someone mentioned that Tolkien was influenced by religion for the Silmarillion. He was. Both by old mythology and his Catholic faith in Britain. He also experienced the horrors of trench warfare in WWI. All of this had an effect upon his writing.
The Hobbit was originally a children's story he created from the old mythology. When he wrote the LOTR he went back and changed part of the Hobbit where Bilbo and Gollum met. It appears there are three different versions of the Hobbit. The original first edition, the altered second edition, and another further altered version that came out in 1966 which is the third edition. All three have small differences with the second and third having been revised to incorporate the LOTR into the storyline.