The real JRR Tolkien : the man who created Middle-Earth /

The Real JRR Tolkien: The Man Who Created Middle Earth is a comprehensive biography of the linguist and writer, taking the reader from his formative years of homeschooling, through the spires of Oxford, to his romance with his wife-to-be on the brink of war and onwards into his phenomenal academic s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Xander, Jesse (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK : White Owl, [2021]
Subjects:	Tolkien, J. R. R. > (John Ronald Reuel), > 1892-1973. Authors, English > 20th century > Biography.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : on leaf moulds
A sickly boy in Bloemfontein
The ogres at Sarehold
City languages and warring trees
The lost and found boys
Mabel, Belladonna, Edith, Lúthien
A holiday, and isolation in Oxford
On the eve of war
Shells burst
Remembrance
Oxford, Leeds and back again
A long spell in Oxford, Hwaete
On discovering hobbits
The new language of war
Writing in a fallen earth
The story rings true
A twilight time in the healing houses
Legacy, or the sub-creations.