Book dossier

A reader's companion to The hobbit and the lord of the rings

by Joseph Mathewson, Isaac Asimov, C. S. Lewis

The hobbit habit / Joseph Mathewson The ring of evil / Isaac Asimov The gods return to earth / C.S. Lewis The dethronement of power / C.S. Lewis The hero is a hobbit / W.H. Auden At the end of the quest, victory / W.H. Auden Oo, those awful orcs! / Edmund Wilson Does Frodo live? / Janet Adam Smith Hobbit redux / Julie Phillips The prevalence of hobbits / Philip Norman The saga of Middle Earth / The Times Literary Supplement The staring eye / Ursula K. LeGuin.