![]() Edith, Tolkien’s wife, only played a supporting role for most of his life. At the time, Oxford was a mostly male-run institution. Women do not play a major role in this narrative. ![]() His eventual fame due to the famous trilogy comes off as unexpected and unplanned. Tolkien comes off as a curious professor of Anglo-Saxon literature in an era before technology consumed modern life and before post-graduate research overtook leading universities. He avoids hagiography while also avoiding smears. Tolkien’s professorial and academic life as an Oxford don dominates most of the narrative, but always lingering behind lies his unique love of language (philology) – particularly “sub-creating” worlds with language.Ĭarpenter achieves a balanced job of handling Tolkien’s life. ![]() This work by Carpenter serves as his authorized biography. Tolkien is most well-known to the public as the author of the famous trilogy Lord of the Rings, surely one of the best works of art ever written in the English language. ![]()
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