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The King Under the Mountain (The Search for J. R. R. Tolkien)
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Product Details
Author:
D. J. Taylor
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
384
Publisher:
Pegasus Books (November 3, 2026)
Imprint:
Pegasus Books
Release Date:
November 3, 2026
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9798897102242
Weight:
20.62oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
File:
Eloquence-SimonSchuster_04152026_P9959735_onix30-20260415.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$32.00
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
12
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$24.64
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P-SS
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A
Overview
A sparkling exploration of the myths that J. R. R. Tolkien created around himself, examining the social and political worlds that surrounded the creator of Middle-Earth, by award-winning biographer D. J. Taylor.
In the past seven decades J.R.R. Tolkien’s major works—The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion—have sold over half a billion copies, been made into prodigiously successful Hollywood movies, and had an incalculable influence on the generations of fantasy writers who followed in their wake.
But Tolkien himself remains a mystery—a deeply conservative Oxford don specializing in an abstruse subject and a diehard Roman Catholic who regarded biography as a waste of time, was suspicious of literary criticism, and jealously guarded his private life from an intrusive media. Of no major twentieth century literary figure is so little known.
The King Under the Mountain is an attempt to decipher this puzzle. Part biography, part critical study, and part fan’s notes offering insight into the deepest recesses of Tolkien’s imaginative world, it explores the myths that Tolkien created around himself, examines the social and political contexts in which he operated and, above all, investigates the kind of person—and the kind of writer—that Tolkien imagined himself to be.
In the past seven decades J.R.R. Tolkien’s major works—The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion—have sold over half a billion copies, been made into prodigiously successful Hollywood movies, and had an incalculable influence on the generations of fantasy writers who followed in their wake.
But Tolkien himself remains a mystery—a deeply conservative Oxford don specializing in an abstruse subject and a diehard Roman Catholic who regarded biography as a waste of time, was suspicious of literary criticism, and jealously guarded his private life from an intrusive media. Of no major twentieth century literary figure is so little known.
The King Under the Mountain is an attempt to decipher this puzzle. Part biography, part critical study, and part fan’s notes offering insight into the deepest recesses of Tolkien’s imaginative world, it explores the myths that Tolkien created around himself, examines the social and political contexts in which he operated and, above all, investigates the kind of person—and the kind of writer—that Tolkien imagined himself to be.
