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From: marotta%lezah.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
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Subject: Tolkien background information
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 16:30:44 EDT
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From: marotta%lezah.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (MARY MAROTTA)


There has been some discussion about J.R.R.Tolkien's background and the 
origin of his naming scheme in the Lord of the Rings.  I would like to
point interested readers to a books called The Inklings, by Humphrey 
Carpenter.  The title of the book is taken from a club at Oxford University
in England, which Tolkien, C.S.Lewis, and Charles Williams formed to
share their work by reading to each other.  They often had other guests
and writers, and were able to discuss their writing as it developed.  I
think anyone who has read anything by one of these authors would find the
book interesting.  Carpenter tells the stories of these three authors with
a special sensitivity to their different styles and helps explain what
made each of these men write so differently.  My copy is published by
Houghton Mifflin, 1979.  It's good biographical data as well as interesting
reading.


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