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The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was orphaned in childhood and brought up in near-poverty. He served in the first World War, surviving the Battle of the Somme, where he lost many of the closest friends he'd ever had. After the war he returned to the academic life, achieving high repute as a scholar and university teacher, eventually becoming Merton Professor of English at Oxford where he was a close friend of C.S. Lewis and the other writers known as The Inklings.Then suddenly his life changed dramatically. One day while grading essay papers he found himself writing 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit' -- and worldwide renown awaited him.Humphrey Carpenter was given unrestricted access to all Tolkien's papers, and interviewed his friends and family. From these sources he follows the long and painful process of creation that produced THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE SILMARILLION and offers a wealth of information about the life and work of the twentieth century's most cherished author.
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Dzhon R. R. Tolkin. Biografiya
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No binding. Condition: New. Cam Tolkin ne ochen-to odobryal biografii. Tochnee skazat, emu ne nravilos, kogda biografiyu prevrashchayut v raznovidnost literaturovedcheskogo issledovaniya. Ya absolyutno uveren, chto izuchat biografiyu avtora radi togo, chtoby ponyat ego trudy, - pustoe delo. Odnako on ne mog ne soznavat, chto, raz ego proizvedeniya polzuyutsya takoj kolossalnoj populyarnostyu, veroyatnost napisaniya biografii posle ego smerti vesma velika. I, pokhozhe, Tolkin ponemnogu sam sobiral materialy dlya svoej budushchej biografii: starye pisma i bumagi on snabdil svoimi kommentariyami. Krome togo, on napisal neskolko stranits vospominanij o svoem detstve. Tak chto est nadezhda, chto on vse zhe ne byl kategoricheski protiv vykhoda etoj knigi. No ego nastoyashchaya biografiya - eto Khobbit, Vlastelin Kolets i Silmarillion, ibo istinnaya pravda o nem soderzhitsya v etikh knigakh. On mog posmeyatsya nad kem ugodno, no chashche vsego smeyalsya nad soboj. Odin raz na novogodnej vecherinke v tridtsatye gody Tolkin nakrylsya kaminnym kovrikom iz islandskoj ovchiny, vymazal litso beloj kraskoj i izobrazhal belogo medvedya. V drugoj raz on odelsya anglosaksonskim voinom, vooruzhilsya boevym toporom i vyshel pogonyatsya za osharashennym sosedom. V starosti on lyubil podsovyvat rasseyannym prodavtsam vmeste s gorstyu melochi svoyu vstavnuyu chelyust. Yumor u menya prostovatyj, - pisal on, - i dazhe samye dobrozhelatelnye kritiki nakhodyat ego utomitelnym. Seller Inventory # 88871
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