Social Scientists & Scholars, Genres & Literary Forms, British & Irish Literary Biography, Literary Biography
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Overview
One day while grading papers, J.R.R. Tolkien inexplicably wrote "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" in the margin - thereby setting out on the path that would bring him fame, fortune, and the devotion of millions. A veteran of the Battle of the Somme, he was a close friend of C. S. Lewis and an editor of the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY before becoming the Merton Professor of English at Oxford.Book Details
Published
August 12, 1978
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Format
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN
9780345272560