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Show f The Sal Lake Tribune, Meniay, September 3, JototJ&Csau&uub Author of Colossal Fantasies, Prof. John Tolkien, 81, Dies - He was taken 111 while Staying with friends in the' SQuth coast English resort city ' and died a short time later in h nursing home. His wife died two years ago after a long e is. They were married for n ' 4 til-r- 4 years. ; John Ronald Reuel Tolkien fctist' a spell over tens of thousands of Americans ' the $$60s with his 500,000-wor- . , y. that Tolkiens work, would into merciful soon pass oblivion." Mammoth Sale It did anything but. It was Just four years later, printed in paperback In this country by Ballantine and Ace Books, that a quarter of s million copies of the trilogy were sold in 10 months. In the late 60s all over America fan clubs sprouted, such as the Tolkien Society of America. The trilogy was also published in hard cover by Houghton Mifflin and was a selection. fit is th(initcly evil. H. 'Called a Classic ft Tolkien admirers compared The creator of this work (or subcreator as he preferred to call writers of fantasy) was an authority on Middle English and Chauncer. He was a gentle, favorably with Milton, tSpohfer and Tolstoy. His English; publisher, Sir Stanley The rCGwfn, speculated that Lord; of the Rings" would be fffiore likely to live beyond his and his sons time than any ct)ie work he had printed. Thun favored tweeds, H put detractors, among them !the critic'Edmund Wilson, put r4tr.vn ; "The Lord of the a fa- fanta-js- y, childrens book got out of tWbich has somehow ffsand." A , London critic condemned it Sheer escapist Observer in 1961 as literature, tdnll, and whimsi-cal- " and expressed the wish man who smoked a pipe and liked to take walks and ride an old bicycle (though he convened to a stylish car with the success of his books.) Oxford Professor From 1925 to 1959 he was a professor at Oxford, ultimately Merton professor of English language and literature and a DIAGONAL Q Automatic Fine Tuning Color Portable Ever) day Magic blue-eye- d, g 0)99 They were, he decided, little people, smaller than the bearded dwarves. Hobbits have no beards. There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly .when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off . . . Anglo-Saxo- donnish-appearin- Lets Them Go In Style And Have Viewing, Listening, And A Tew Suggestions. Recording On Quality Products. Here Are Just All. Come See Them School sity of Glasgow on fairy stories. He admitted that fairy stories were something of an escape, but didnt see why there should not be an escape from the world of factories, machineguns and bombs. His own fantasy, it was said, had begun when he was correcting examination papers one day and happened to scratch at the top of one of the dullest, in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." Then hobbits began to take form. ,l. 1 Just In Time To Send With The Kiddies When They Go Back To Fairy Stories ''The trilogy was wntten, he recalled, to illustrate a 1S38 lecture of his at the Univer- Professor Tolkien Author Dies at 81 emphatically that it was allegory. The Ring, discovered by Frodos uncle, Bilbo Baggtns, lnl'an earlier book, "The has the power to fjpbbit, nakc its wearer invisible. But most serious Vt, nterfaimim Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me," he said. d ,.$e as i V Complex World Creating the complex but X'oniistent world of Middle-;Eartcomplete with elaborate maps, Tolkien peopled it Vith hobbits, elves, dwarves, men, wizards and Ents and Ores (goblins) and other servants of the Dark Lord, Saurorj. story can be read on piiny jevels. But the author, a cjiolpr and linguist, for 39 gears', c teacher, denied howev- Tolkien maintained, r. j!i mous and finuits exit iooitx FRIDAY IS GRAKUFS ONLY KITE TH er, that it wasnt intended as I dont like an allegory. allegories. I never liked Hans Lord of the Rings," ip fssence a fantasy of the war between ultimate good Jwd ultimate evil. jtngs," Tolkiens most Ctui'CzA LcZifet uoSuo, s c.-f- ' t 3A& the acclaim his extracurriculat the ar fantasy received that endless mterpreta-onvariously called fc a great Christian allegory, the last literary masterpiece of the Middle Ages 'and a philological game New York Times Servire Prof John Tol- t LONDON lien, author of tire monumental and controversial tnlogy f yhe Lord of the Rings, died EUtiday in Bournemouth. 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