Harrison Kretzer’s Reviews > Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings > Status Update

“Perhaps it is rather old-fashioned, the idea of literature as teaching a moral, but if so, much of the greatest literature of all ages must be called old-fashioned.”

“Perhaps it is rather old-fashioned, the idea of literature as teaching a moral, but if so, much of the greatest literature of all ages must be called old-fashioned.”

This fool of a took just called Eowyn, Theoden’s daughter😑

Lots of good info thus far but the author is an average writer at best, which isn’t ideal.

Was gifted this book for Christmas. Written in 1969, it will interesting to see what analysis is made (and isn’t made) about Tolkien and LOTR only 12 years removed from the original publication!