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J.R.R. TOLKIEN
A BIOGRAPHY
HUMPHREY CARPENTER
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
It is mid-morning on a spring day in 1967. I have driven from the centre of Oxford, over Magdalen Bridge, along the London road, and up a hill into the respectable but dull suburb of Headington. Near a large private school for girls I turn left into Sandfield Road, a residential street of two-storey brick houses, each with
