Instead, his work as a philologist and professor of Anglo-Saxon and English at the University of Oxford fed the brilliantly ... Hobbit" and other books. "J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript ...

J. R. R. Tolkien was adamant that The Lord of the Rings ... 1915 so that he could finish his studies at the University of Oxford. Once his exams were complete, he joined the 13th Service Battalion ...

Tolkien once had a vision of this structure as a temple to Morgoth, the villain of Middle-earth. By John Garth Photographs by Kieran Dodds The Radcliffe Camera, part of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.

From 1920 to 1943, J.R ... Tolkien’s wife, Baillie, had them compiled and published for a book titled The Father Christmas Letters. The originals later went on display at the University of ...

these great Oxford storytellers have drawn the whole world to their crackling hearth. C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narniahave sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. J. R. R. Tolkien’s ...

Mabel, Tolkien ... Oxford, no doubt resonated with Tolkien because of the anti-Catholicism still very much alive in England in his day. For more in-depth research into the life and faith of J. R.