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A review by briandemarco_97
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition by Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter
challenging
informative
slow-paced
4.0
About as close to an autobiography as we shall ever get from Tolkien. Many more casual readers, simply interested in more information about his work, will be tempted to skip most of the letters and focus only on the ones where he discusses his writings. That's certainly a valid way of reading the book, but I think they will be missing out on a lot of interesting information.
If you are at all interested in the deeper, perhaps more philosophically inclined questions about Tolkien (who was he? Why did he write what he did and why did he write it the way that he did? Where did it all come from?), this book is an invaluable resource, a window into the mind of one of the most remarkable figures in 20th century literature
If you are at all interested in the deeper, perhaps more philosophically inclined questions about Tolkien (who was he? Why did he write what he did and why did he write it the way that he did? Where did it all come from?), this book is an invaluable resource, a window into the mind of one of the most remarkable figures in 20th century literature