Extollager
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When I read, over 50 years ago, that Tolkien found Rider Haggard’s romance She intriguing, I took note, and eventually found I liked Haggard. His books May be read online for free now, but in the 1970s I looked for inexpensive reading copies, and they were easy to find. I haven’t even caught up with all the ones I bought years ago, largely because I keep rereading favorites, etc.
But as time passed I learned about Tolkien’s own reading interests from the biographies by Carpenter and Garth, etc. I don’t exert myself much about this matter, but do collect some books known to have been read by him or at least likely to have been. Do people here st Chrons do that?
The Haggard here I think Tolkien likely read and may well have been influenced by. The other book was known to him in his schooldays.
But as time passed I learned about Tolkien’s own reading interests from the biographies by Carpenter and Garth, etc. I don’t exert myself much about this matter, but do collect some books known to have been read by him or at least likely to have been. Do people here st Chrons do that?
The Haggard here I think Tolkien likely read and may well have been influenced by. The other book was known to him in his schooldays.