The Road to Middle-Earth
Tom Shippey
252 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0395339731
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1983
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The author draws on his own knowledge of Anglo-Saxon and on his friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien to show that the key to the inspiration, magic, and enchantment of Tolkien’s Middle-earth books is language itself