Ruth’s Reviews > J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography > Status Update

It was the ordinary unremarkable life [] a life of academic brilliance, certainly, but only in a very narrow professional field that is really of little interest to laymen. And that would be that – apart from the strange fact that during these years when ‘nothing happened’ he wrote two books which have become world best-sellers, books that have captured the imagination and influenced millions.