J. R. R. Tolkien (Writers for the 70s)

From the back cover: Without neglecting Tolkien's marvelous invention, robust narrative energy, or warm humor, Robley Evens illuminates for us the profound moral seriousness of Tolkien's work; shows us too that in his conception of the power of the imagination, in his deep idealism, and in his elegiac sense of history, Tolkien is a significant writer for the seventies. "J. R. R. Tolkien" is part of a series of critical appreciations called Writers for the Seventies. ...