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During the darkest years of World War II, while German bombs fell on British cities and the outcome of civilization hung in the balance, an...
When the first volume of *The Lord of the Rings* appeared in London bookshops on July 29, 1954, it bore only J.R.R. Tolkien's name on...
On July 29, 1954, a sixty-two-year-old Oxford professor named J.R.R. Tolkien saw his life's work finally reach the public when Allen & Unwin published *The...