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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Tolkien?s most popular works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns ? love and loss courage and betrayal humility and pride ? giving his books a wide and enduring appeal. Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly. Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years teaching Old and Middle English as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem Beowulf illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past. Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein South Africa in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ?legendarium? that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth he also wrote poetry children?s stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life. (SP)