Tolkien slept here

[wellinghall]

"Tolkien had started writing this one as a continuation of his previous book, The Hobbit, for his son who was out in the army somewhere. Then he went on writing for his son and continued till a whole big world was born in through his literature."

http://maxthestrangerinmymirror.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/the-lord-of-the-rings-and-me-a-review-of-sorts/

Comments

[malaheed.livejournal.com]

That's about as detailed and full of information as a big-mac is full of high quality meat and crammed full of flavour.

[garamondbophin.livejournal.com]

Should we suggest this blogger have a look at the TS website and possibly consider joining as a member (or, given some of the internal evidence, an Enting)? This may provide a way to replace the Big Mac with some Aberdeen Angus...

[scribblerworks.livejournal.com]

How old is that blogger, I wonder?

Especially since it took some outside sources to inform him that LotR was first published in 1954.

Me... I was always fascinated by everything in books I loved, including all those cryptic things printed before or behind the title page. (Before I started working in libraries and learned some of the esoteric secrets.) The publishing history dates were fairly easy to work out.

Well... at least he's reading the book.