TOLKIEN AND HIS WORK

  1. Who was J.R.R. Tolkien anyway?
  2. Were the languages presented in The Lord of the Rings real languages?
  3. Were Tolkien just the ``editor'' of The Lord of the Rings?
  4. How thoroughly realized was Tolkien's fiction that he was the ``translator'' of The Lord of the Rings?
  5. Why is Tolkien's work so difficult to translate into other languages?
  6. Did the events in The Lord of the Rings take place on another planet?
  7. Was the northwest of Middle-earth meant to actually be Europe?
  8. Was the Shire meant to be England?
  9. What were the changes made to The Hobbit after The Lord of the Rings was written, and what motivated them?
  10. Was there a change of tone between Book I and the rest of The Lord of the Rings?
  11. Why did Tolkien fail to publish The Silmarillion during the eighteen years which followed the publication of The Lord of the Rings?
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