J. R. R. Tolkien

The Making of a Legend

By: Colin Duriez

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Paperback | 19 October 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Long before the successful The Lord of the Rings films, J.R.R. Tolkien's creations, imagination, and characters had captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages and perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth? Tolkien had a difficult life, for many years: orphaned and poor, his guardian forbad him to communicate with the woman he had fallen in love with, and he went through the horrors of the First World War. An intensely private and brilliant scholar, he spent over fifty years working on the languages, history, peoples and geography of Middle-earth, with a consistent mythology and body of legends inspired by a formidable knowledge of early northern European history and culture. J.R.R. Tolkien became a legend by creating an imaginary world that has enthralled and delighted generations. This delightful and accessible biography brings him to life.

About the Author

Colin Duriez has appeared as a commentator on extended DVDs of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, and BBC television's The Worlds of Fantasy. He is also the author of The Inklings Handbook (with the late David Porter), J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Story of Their Friendship, and Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings, and has contributed to definitive reference works, The Tolkien Encyclopedia and a number of other tomes relating to J.R.R. Tolkien.

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I enjoyed this book, perhaps more for the light it throws on his writings than on him as a man. -- Christopher Vane * The Lance *

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Foreword	p. 7
"I Am in Fact a Hobbit..."	p. 11
Edith	p. 24
Schooldays and that T.C.B.S.	p. 38
Oxford and the Dawn of a new Life	p. 55
The Shadow of War	p. 73
War and Loss	p. 86
Recovery, "W", and Half a Million Words	p. 103
Leeds and Dragons	p. 121
Oxford and C.S. Lewis	p. 131
Of Hobbits and Inklings	p. 155
Tolkien's Second War	p. 177
The Struggle to Publish	p. 192
The Tolkien Phenomenon, and Farewell	p. 213
Afterword	p. 220
Notes	p. 221
Select Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 236
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