About the Book: King Under the Mountain
A provocative and suggestive account of the life of one of historys most
original literary giants: J. R. R. Tolkien.
Since his death in 1973, J.R.R. Tolkiens major works - The Hobbit, The Lord of
the Rings and The Silmarillion - have sold over half a billion copies, been made
into prodigiously successful films and had an incalculable influence on the
generations of fantasy writers who followed in their wake. But Tolkien himself
remains an enigma - a deeply conservative Oxford don and a diehard Roman
Catholic who regarded biography as a waste of time, was