The New Yorker on how Tolkien invented sword and sorcery
(WritingFiction) Via The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik writes about 'The Lord of the Rings,' 'Twilight,' and Young-Adult Fantasy Books. Excerpt: At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around,
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