Humphrey Carpenter
It had to be Coaxed Out of him
It features wizards and magic, it sells in millions worldwide, and now a lavish movie version of it is adding hordes of new fans to the already spectacular total. No, I’m not talking about Harry Potter. Since the mid-1950s – approximately forty years before J K Rowling dreamt up Hogwarts – J R R Tolkien’s Middle-earth, with its hobbits, dwarves and elves, has been acquiring fans who treat The Lord of the Rings with almost religious devotion.
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