Pollack, Pam

Summary: Best known for his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in British-occupied South Africa. His early life was full of action and adventure. Tolkien spent his childhood roaming the British countryside with his family and could read and write by age four. He was naturally gifted with languages and used this skill as a signals officers in World War II as well as in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Turtleback Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TOL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET TOLKIEN

Grotta, Daniel

Summary: Surprisingly little is known about the personal life of the creator of Middle Earth. This man, who was embarrassed by success, lived most of his life as an Oxford scholar in the surrounds of a cloistered academic community. As a child in South Africa, Tolkien was kidnapped by a native and taken into the bush. As a youngster in the industrial city of Birmingham, England, Tolkien was raised by a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOLKIEN, J.R.R. GRO

Summary: "This film tells the story of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist and author of many stories, including most famously The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It describes the importance of the rural English West Midlands, where Tolkien grew up, in shaping his literary imagination and how the ancient northern languages he studied and taught throughout his life influenced...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV J.R.R.