num_pages: 286
description: One day while grading papers, J.R.R. Tolkien inexplicably wrote "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" in the margin - thereby setting out on the path that would bring him fame, fortune, and the devotion of millions. A veteran of the Battle of the Somme, he was a close friend of C. S. Lewis and an editor of the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY before becoming the Merton Professor of English at Oxford.
language: English
title: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
titlecomplete: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
characters: Beowulf, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis
genres: Biography, History, British Literature, Autobiography, Historical, Reference, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature, Memoir
ratings_count: 15159
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt