Tolkien. A Biography

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Little, Brown
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: First Edition

Description: 290 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This biography recounts Tolkiens early childhood in South Africa followed by his familys return to England after his banker fathers death. The Tolkiens settled in the highly industrialized city of Birmingham in the 1890s which was still surrounded by breathtaking countryside. Thus the industrialized heart of the Empire and the sylvan idyll of the woods and hills became important extremes for much of Tolkiens thinking and writing, leading up to that most inspired moment when, as an Oxford don, Tolkien was marking exam papers and noticed his student had left a blank page in the answer book. Suddenly he wrote: In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. In typical Tolkien fashion, he was intrigued by this and decided to find out more about hobbits. The rest is history.

ISBN: 9780316860444