Tolkien's Oxford

J. R. R. Tolkien lived much of his adult life in the city of Oxford. This book is not the story of his life as others have covered it, rather a snapshot of some of the places where he lived, worked, socialised and visited in and around Oxford. During this time he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, books which were destined to change English literature in the later part of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century.
This book covers his days as a student at Exeter College and, after the First World War, his time working on the Oxford English Dictionary in the Old Ashmolean Building. It moves on through his working life as a professor at Pembroke College and later at Merton College and family outings on the River Cherwell and to the great ancient monuments around Oxford.
The book is lavishly illustrated with both old and modern pictures and archive maps, and whether the reader is at home in an armchair or on foot in Oxford it works as a handy guide book. This is an essential companion for anyone wanting to find the places that influenced Tolkien and his works.

Biografia, Autobiografia, Memórias