entertainment">The collection is published by HarperCollins, which promises that the essays’ will bring readers back to the world of The Silmarillion, Bequeathed Tales in Under the spell of the ring‘. A top employee of the publisher says that Tolkien continued to write about his fantasy world until the years before his death. The new collection is said to be a ‘treasure house’ that gives readers the opportunity to ‘look over Professor Tolkien’s shoulder’.
entertainment">Tolkien’s first book on Middle-earth, From Hobbit, came out in 1937. The book series Under the spell of the ring (’The Lord of the Rings‘) followed in the 1950s. About half a century later, a commercially successful film adaptation of the books also followed. According to the newspaper, the descendants of Tolkien, who died in 1973, have given permission for the publication of the essays.
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