Many of these had to be written in the way of business, but in any case letter-writing was on most occasions a favourite activity with him. As I did with Humphrey Carpenter’s biography, I’m going to include a bit of his introduction so I can properly set the scene:Īn immense amount of Tolkien’s time was taken up with the written word: not just his academic work and the stories of ‘Middle-earth’, but also letters. This massive tome is not for the faint of heart, and honestly probably not for someone not already actively in love with Tolkien since a lot of it is linguistic gibberish, but a lot of it also left me yelling about Sauron, so I guess it’s a win either way. This is, much like his biography, a step off the beaten path with my An Adventure in Tolkien project, and will be much more structured than my normal Middle-earth reviews. Wow, it has been a minute and a half since the last time I reviewed something for Tolkien! Wildly, the last one was back in January, when we were doing a month of celebratory posts for his birthday.
Previously on An Adventure in Tolkien: Did I really just cry for 300 pages straight?
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