Tolkien, A Biography

Comic Book Guy · 01-17-2002, 09:18 PM

Humphrey Carpenter's (Letters of J.R.R Tolkien, The Inklings) is indeed a gem, I would never normally read Autobiographys etc but I was interested in this because he is the writer of the Lord of the rings. Rather than give little information and large pictures, Carpenter gives his recollections of his own personal meeting with Tolkien and information from his family and papers. I was surprised at the amount of detail it goes into, such as family roots and small events such as Tolkiens incident with a Trantula [sp].

A favourite piece is a letter by Tolkien to his father when he was 3, he dictated it to his nurse.

01-17-2002, 09:18 PM	#1
Comic Book Guy Best Ex-Administrator ever Join Date: May 2001 Location: Ireland Posts: 60,547	Tolkien, A Biography Humphrey Carpenter's (Letters of J.R.R Tolkien, The Inklings) is indeed a gem, I would never normally read Autobiographys etc but I was interested in this because he is the writer of the Lord of the rings. Rather than give little information and large pictures, Carpenter gives his recollections of his own personal meeting with Tolkien and information from his family and papers. I was surprised at the amount of detail it goes into, such as family roots and small events such as Tolkiens incident with a Trantula [sp]. A favourite piece is a letter by Tolkien to his father when he was 3, he dictated it to his nurse.

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