0898708257 
Paperback Tolkien : man and myth / Joseph Pearce.
Publication year: 1998
Format: Paperback
Publisher: San Francisco : Ignatius Press,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780898708257 (pbk.) 9780898707113 (hard)
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"First published in Great Britain in 1998 by HarperCollins Publishers"--T.p. verso.
J. R. R. Tolkien'sThe Lord of the Ringstook first place in several nationwide British polls on the "greatest book of the century." He may be the most popular writer of our age, but Tolkien is often misunderstood. This major new study of his life, his character, and his work reveals the facts and confronts the myths. It explores the man's background and the culture in which he wrote. Tolkien: Man and Mythobserves the relationships that the master writer had with his closest literary colleagues. It sheds light on his unique relationship with C. S. Lewis, the writer of the Narnia books, and the roots of their eventual estrangement. In this original book about a leading literary life, Joseph Pearce enters the world that Tolkien created in the seven books published during his lifetime. He explores the significance of Middle Earth and what it represented in Tolkien's thinking. Myth, to this legendary author, was not a leap from reality but a leap into reality. The impact of Tolkien's grea
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xiv, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
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