TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Devin
TI  - Tolkien: how an obscure Oxford professor wrote The Hobbit and became the most beloved author of the century 
SN  - 9781426796715
AV  - PR6039.O32 Z587 2014
U1  - 823/.912 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Nashville
PB  - Abingdon Press
KW  - Tolkien, J. R. R.
KW  - Hobbit (Tolkien, J. R. R.)
KW  - fast
KW  - Children's stories, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Fantasy fiction, English
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Art appreciation
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Son and schoolboy -- Scholar and soldier -- Storyteller and mythmaker
N2  - 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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