James Ronald Ruel Tolkien was an English academic with a particular interest in Anglo-Saxon languages and legends and philology. He wrote one charming children’s book, The Hobbit, then a grander extended work of fantasy, The Lord of the Rings, which was released into a world freshly enlivened by the new and unfamiliar scents of marijuana smoke and patchouli oil.
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