J.R.R. TOLKIEN
A BIOGRAPHY
HUMPHREY CARPENTER
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First published in Great Britain by George Allen & Unwin 1977
Copyright © The Estate of the late Humphrey Carpenter 1977, 1978, 1982
Humphrey Carpenter asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBN: 9780261102453
Ebook Edition © MAY 2011 ISBN: 9780007381258
Version: 2019-11-11
Dedicated to the memory of ‘The T.C.B.S.’
Contents
PART TWO: 1892–1916: Early years
CHAPTER III: ‘PRIVATE LANG.’ – AND EDITH
CHAPTER VIII: THE BREAKING OF THE FELLOWSHIP
PART THREE: 1917–1925: The making of a mythology
PART FOUR: 1925–1949(i):‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit’
CHAPTER II: PHOTOGRAPHS OBSERVED
CHAPTER III: ‘HE HAD BEEN INSIDE LANGUAGE’
PART FIVE : 1925–1949(ii): The Third Age
CHAPTER I : SLAMMING THE GATES
PART SEVEN: 1959–1973: Last years