Showing posts with label Tolkien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tolkien. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

All Things Tolkien

Well, I always have been a methodical reader. Having read Alan Jacobs' fine biography of C. S. Lewis a short time ago, I decided I had better read something about his friend Tolkien (or "Tollers" to those who knew him well). So I've started in on Humphrey Carpenter's 1977 biography of the man. First lines:
It is mid-morning on a spring day in 1967. I have driven from the city of Oxford, over Magdalen Bridge, along the London road, and up a hill into the respectable but dull suburb of Headington.
By the way, speaking of things Tolkienish, Josh over a eucatastrophe101, who happens to live just down the road from me (I recently discovered), has come into possession of Tolkien's recently published book, Children of Hurin.We expect a thorough review (with footnotes), Josh. Oh, and btw, that's quite a little Bosox fan you've got there!

[Update: Justin Taylor quotes an interesting review of Tolkein's Children of Hurin]