{"product_id":"9781408721803","title":"The King Under the Mountain : In Search of J.R.R. Tolkien","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Taylor, D.J. \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 17\/09\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages, 8pp mono, 8pp colour,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781408721803,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince his death in 1973, 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 films and had an incalculable influence on the generations of fantasy writers who followed in their wake. But Tolkien himself remains an enigma - a deeply conservative Oxford don 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew major literary figures of the twentieth century are shrouded in such mystery. The King Under the Mountain unravels Tolkien's life and work: part biography, part critical study and part a fan's notes on the deepest recesses of Tolkien's imaginative world, D. J. Taylor unpicks the myths that Tolkien created around himself, as well as the social, political and cultural contexts that informed his work with dazzling effect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57348847174005,"sku":"9781408721803","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781408721803.jpg?v=1783673461","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781408721803","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}