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J. R. R. Tolkien (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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J. R. R. Tolkien’s novels represent only a small part of the complicated matrix from which they evolved. During his lifetime, he published three volumes of novellas and short stories, Farmer Giles of Ham (1949), Tree and Leaf (1964), and Smith of Wootton Major (1967). Some of these tales had originally been bedtime stories for his own children, such as the posthumous The Father Christmas Letters (1976) or Roverandom (1998). The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth (1980) both...

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