From African deserts to a lost paradise -- Changes and heartbreaks -- Undergraduate -- Wartime -- Lost tales found -- There lived a hobbit -- The Lord of the Rings -- Retirement and legacy

Introduce a new generation of readers to the man who wrote the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit. This book takes young readers through the exciting life of the man who created amazing new worlds and helps kids discover how he could see them. Explore the personal experiences and subjects that inspired Tolkien's stories through hands-on activities, and learn how he influenced his contemporaries as well as later writers

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