The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world. No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his world of Middle-earth—a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine that anyone could have created it, seemingly out of thin air. In The Tower and the Ruin, Michael D. C. Drout explores Tolkien’s genius, allowing us to glimpse the making of