{"product_id":"9781408721803-king-under-the-mountain","title":"The King Under the Mountain","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Search of J.R.R. Tolkien\u003cbr\u003eA provocative and suggestive account of the life of one of history's most original literary giants: J. R. R. Tolkien.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It is no surprise that his biographers have often struggled, which makes D.J. Taylor the right man for the job. A polymathic critic and serious novelist, he knows as much about inter and postwar literature as anyone alive' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is by far the most entertaining study of Tolkien I've ever read' Alex Diggins,\u003ci\u003e The Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA provocative and suggestive account of the life of one of history's most original literary giants: J. R. R. Tolkien.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince his death in 1973, J.R.R. Tolkien's major works - \u003ci\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/i\u003e - have sold over half a billion copies, been made into prodigiously successful films and had an incalculable influence on the generations of fantasy writers who followed in their wake. But Tolkien himself remains an enigma - a deeply conservative Oxford don and a diehard Roman Catholic who regarded biography as a waste of time, was suspicious of literary criticism and jealously guarded his private life from an intrusive media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew major literary figures of the twentieth century are shrouded in such mystery. \u003ci\u003eThe King Under the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e unravels Tolkien's life and work: part biography, part critical study and part a fan's notes on the deepest recesses of Tolkien's imaginative world, D. J. Taylor unpicks the myths that Tolkien created around himself, as well as the social, political and cultural contexts that informed his work with dazzling effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58749399368054,"sku":"9781408721803","price":23.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_43487835.jpg?v=1790182321","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781408721803-king-under-the-mountain","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}