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... suggest Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley
Also Tolkien (The Authorized Biography) by Humphrey Carpenter is also quite good.
And finally, even though it's not a biography of an individual, I recommend The Harlem Globetrotters: An Illustrated History by ... I've read the The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien about a dozen times, and I consistently return to the Conan stories by Robert E. Howard. I also love the Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore. I don't get to play Dungeons and Dragons nearly as much as I'd like, and I tend to pick up a late-80s, ... ... fan today than fantasy, I have to admit that I am one of the legion who were introduced to "speculative literature" through JRR Tolkien. I quickly followed that introduction with a spate of novels, especially series (Conan, Gor novels, Pern, Piers Anthony books, Edgar Rice Burroughts, ... Stephen King
Anne Rice
Ruth Rendell a.k.a. Barbara Vine
Catherine Aird
Clive Barker
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tabitha King
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Agatha Christie
Alfred Hitchcock even though he didn't write the stories himself I still ... Stephen King
Anne Rice
Ruth Rendell a.k.a. Barbara Vine
Catherine Aird
Clive Barker
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tabitha King
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Agatha Christie
Alfred Hitchcock even though he didn't write the stories himself I still ... ... 11, their current age.
Treasure Island by Robert Loius Stevenson
Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
( They have since completed the LOTR trilogy on their own - no way I was reading that to them!!)
Walking the Boundaries by Jackie French
Seven Little Au ... ... by his odd decision to show mercy to such a creature as Gollum, that redresses the wrong and accomplishes the quest.
In The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, p. 234 and 235, Tolkien wrote:
"The domination of the Ring was much too strong for the mean soul of Sméagol. But he would never had to ... #'s 2, 6: In letter number 269 of The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Tolkien says: "...I cannot claim to be a sufficient theologian to say whether my notion of orcs is heretical or not. I don't feel under any obligation to make my story fit with formalized Christian theology, though I actually ... ... the same books.
He just strikes me as someone old before his time, kind of fussy and prissy, stuffy. Maybe it's just The Letters which make me think that. It's a non-caffeine day so far, so I can't recall if I know anything about his younger years -- although that public school life does ...
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