num_pages: 206
description: From the back Without neglecting Tolkien's marvelous invention, robust narrative energy, or warm humor, Robley Evens illuminates for us the profound moral seriousness of Tolkien's work; shows us too that in his conception of the power of the imagination, in his deep idealism, and in his elegiac sense of history, Tolkien is a significant writer for the seventies. "J. R. R. Tolkien" is part of a series of critical appreciations called Writers for the Seventies. ...
language: English
title: J.R.R. Tolkien
titlecomplete: J.R.R. Tolkien (Writers for the Seventies)
genres: Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 25
publisher: Warner Books