![]() ![]() ![]() These stories came long before Tolkien, while bored reading a student’s exam and finding a blank page, wrote the famous lines, “In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit,” but there is more than a little of that Tolkien story in the present mythological account.Ĭhristopher Tolkien, now 92, has made it his life’s work to reveal his father’s extensive unpublished oeuvre. The next year he began “The Lays of Beleriand” in which the characters Beren and Lúthien appear as part of a great series of tales. Fortunately for generations of readers to come, he contracted trench fever and was seconded back to England. ![]() A year later, Tolkien was in the trenches at the Battle of the Somme, an abattoir of war. His father did not approve of the match so they did not marry until age 24. These two names are engraved on the tombstone beneath the names of John Ronald Ruel Tolkien and Edith Bratt Tolkien. ![]()
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