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

By: Publisher: Nashville : Abingdon Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 145 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781426796715
  • 1426796714
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.912 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6039.O32 Z587 2014
Online resources:
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, a world of filled with characters that readers the world over have loved and learned from 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.With a third follow-up film and the book's.
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Son and schoolboy -- Scholar and soldier -- Storyteller and mythmaker.

J.R.R. Tolkien transformed his love for arcane linguistic studies into a fantastic world of Middle Earth, a world of filled with characters that readers the world over have loved and learned from 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.With a third follow-up film and the book's.

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