A Tolkien Book of Days
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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This handsome 'Book of Days' can be used as a dateless diary and as a birthday book. It contains Tolkien’s own delicate illustrations plus a wealth of quotations and bibliographical details – both from Tolkien’s own life and from within his works.Tags
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A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have show more created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits. Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle. Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher. In 2013, his title, TheHobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Tolkien Diary
- Original publication date
- 1992
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- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, creator of Middle-earth and author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, was born in the town of Blomfontein in the Orange Free State, where his father, Art... (show all)hur, had moved to take up a senior position with a bank.
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- English
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