The Lord of the Rings, J.
R.
R.
In fact the saga is sui generis - a triumph of imagination which spRings to life within its own framework and on its own terms..
Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps.
Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.
H.
Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.
S.
The story of ths world is one of high and heroic adventure.
Donald Barr has described it as a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness.
Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will.
Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the very few works of genius in recent literature.
It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale.
Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages.
Tolkien\'s three-Volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth - home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving little people, cheerful and shy.
The Lord of the Rings, J.
R.
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