J.R.R. Tolkien

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. …