Tolkien : how an obscure Oxford professor wrote The Hobbit and became the most beloved author of the century / Devin Brown.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Nashville : Abingdon Press, 2014Description: 145 pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781426796708
  • 1426796706
  • 1630888060
  • 9781630888060
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR 6039 .O32  Z587 2014
Contents:
Son and schoolboy -- Scholar and soldier -- Storyteller and mythmaker.
Summary: J.R.R. Tolkien transformed his love for arcane linguistic studies into a fantastic world of Middle Earth people that readers the world over have learned from and loved for generations. Devin Brown focuses on the story behind how Tolkien became one of the best-known writers in the history of literature, a tale as fascinating and as inspiring as any of the fictional ones he would go on to write. Weaving in the major aspects of the author s life, career, and faith, Brown shares how Tolkien's beloved works came to be written.
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Son and schoolboy -- Scholar and soldier -- Storyteller and mythmaker.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-145).

J.R.R. Tolkien transformed his love for arcane linguistic studies into a fantastic world of Middle Earth people that readers the world over have learned from and loved for generations. Devin Brown focuses on the story behind how Tolkien became one of the best-known writers in the history of literature, a tale as fascinating and as inspiring as any of the fictional ones he would go on to write. Weaving in the major aspects of the author s life, career, and faith, Brown shares how Tolkien's beloved works came to be written.

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