J.R.R. Tolkien

by Robert S. Blackham

This first entry of a series covers the fascinating and enigmatic world of J.R.R. Tolkien, examining his place in literary history, his books and his iconic characters. The reader can explore facts and trivia from Tolkien’s life and works, including his early life in southern Africa and Birmingham, Tolkien on the silver screen, his role in the two world wars and his friendship with C.S. Lewis, as well as the places that inspired his fictional world of Middle-earth.Both light-hearted and highly informative, this book offers an insight for new and old Tolkien fans into one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

192 pages, Paperback

Published October 7, 2019

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked up this book a few weeks ago at Blackwell's in Oxford. Beautiful cover, and just paging through it I learned some interesting things about Tolkien's life and works. However, the book is very disjointed – more like a collection of facts than a book – plus it suffers from a severe lack of copy editing. There are some truly inexcusable errata, such as an entire chapter (and its running heads) called "Principle Inhabitants of Middle Earth"; and Radcliffe Camera is spelled Ratcliffe Camera. There are also many run-on sentences and sentence fragments, plus the usual (in British writing) comma splices. But on the whole I'm glad to have read this book. I did learn a lot.

[Erick Carvalho · Rating 2 out of 5]

Livro divertido e introdutório, com algumas curiosidades interessantes. Feito para quem tem vontade de conhecer quem foi J.R.R.Tolkien mas não tem vontade de se aprofundar muito.

[airy xie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to read. A little introduction about JRR Tolkien and his recorded life. I want to read something like this about CS Lewis too.

[Mayang Sari · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great general life biography on one of the best author of the time IMO.