by Humphrey Carpenter · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780049280700
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«J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography» is the biography of J.R.R. Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter, published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd in paperback (288 pages).
Authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth, written with access to his papers and interviews with family and friends. Carpenter follows Tolkien from South Africa to Oxford, through the First World War and his friendship with C.S. Lewis and the Inklings, and shows how that life led to the creation of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
English edition of 1987; the work was originally published in 1977 by Allen & Unwin.
For readers interested in the life of J.R.R. Tolkien and the origin of his fantasy works.
Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien and other members of the literary society the Inklings. He won a Mythopoeic Award for his book The Inklings in 1982.
