Tolkien : a biography / by Humphrey Carpenter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977.Description: 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0395253608
  • 9780395253601
  • 0395486769
  • 9780395486764
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Tolkien.DDC classification:
  • B
LOC classification:
  • PR6039.O32 Z62 1977
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
A visit -- 1892-1916 : early years. Bloemfontein ; Birmingham ; "Private-lang." and Edith ; "T.C., B.S., etc." ; Oxford ; Reunion ; War ; The breaking of the fellowship -- 1917-1925 : the making of a mythology. Lost tales ; Oxford interlude ; Northern venture -- 1925-1949 (I) : "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit". Oxford life ; Photographs observed ; "He had been inside language" ; Jack ; Northmoor Road ; The storyteller -- 1925-1949 (II) : the third age. Enter Mr. Baggins ; "The new Hobbit" -- 1949-1966 : Success. Slamming the gates ; A big risk ; Cash or kudos -- 1959-1973 : Last years. Headington ; Bournemouth ; Merton Street -- The tree.
Summary: The authorized biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the epic "The Lord of the Rings."
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"The published writings of J.R.R. Tolkien": pages 268-275.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A visit -- 1892-1916 : early years. Bloemfontein ; Birmingham ; "Private-lang." and Edith ; "T.C., B.S., etc." ; Oxford ; Reunion ; War ; The breaking of the fellowship -- 1917-1925 : the making of a mythology. Lost tales ; Oxford interlude ; Northern venture -- 1925-1949 (I) : "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit". Oxford life ; Photographs observed ; "He had been inside language" ; Jack ; Northmoor Road ; The storyteller -- 1925-1949 (II) : the third age. Enter Mr. Baggins ; "The new Hobbit" -- 1949-1966 : Success. Slamming the gates ; A big risk ; Cash or kudos -- 1959-1973 : Last years. Headington ; Bournemouth ; Merton Street -- The tree.

Also issued online.

The authorized biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the epic "The Lord of the Rings."

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