how an obscure Oxford professor wrote The Hobbit and became the most beloved author of the century
J.R.R. Tolkien transformed his love for arcane linguistics into the imaginary world of Middle Earth, a world filled with characters that readers everywhere have loved for generations. When the new millennium arrived, lists were created for everything that was 20th century. What was the best book or the best author of the 20th century? As list after list was created, all over the world, J.R.R. Tolkien and his trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, was found at the top of every list. Only two authors had more than one book in Amazon's Top 20 Books for the 2oth century : J.R.R. Tolkien and William Shakespeare. But J.R.R. Tolkien's first book, The Hobbit, came very close to never being published. Devin Brown's book tells the amazing story of how this came about.
