Complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings. / Complete collection of Tolkien's essays / Repackaged to complement the Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, also reissued this month / Attractive new design as part of the Tolkien Collection, the matching library of B-format paperbacks
J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he
is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The
Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been
translated into over 60 languages and have sold many millions of
copies worldwide.
Christopher Tolkien, born on 21 November 1924, is the third son of
J.R.R. Tolkien. During the Second World War he served in the Royal
Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm as a pilot. At the end of the war
he returned to Oxford University and became a Fellow and Tutor in
English of New College in 1964, lecturing in the University on
early English and northern literature. Appointed by J.R.R. Tolkien
to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself since his
father's death in 1973 to the editing and publication of
unpublished writings, notably The Silmarillion and Beowulf, and the
collections entitled Unfinished Tales and The History of
Middle-earth. Since 1975 he has lived in France with his wife
Baillie.
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