(1) Tolkien was, by temperament, a very different man from Lewis.

(2) It was clear to him that Tolkien was a literary genius.

(3) Tolkien probably did not approve, thinking this mere flattery.

(4) Tolkien was not writing to a thesis.

(5) Tolkien, in his history of the elves, would not wish to go against what he accepted as doctrine universally true.

(6) But he was soon to find that Tolkien had more to offer him than the chance to learn Old Norse.

(7) Tolkien could have given a lecture about all these at any time.

(8) However Tolkien admired the aesthetic impulse towards good beneath the pride and sorrow.

(9) Tolkien, no doubt, would have seen this point and dealt with it somehow if he had published a full account.

(10) It was therefore an important moment when Tolkien gave Lewis the Lay of Leithian to read in manuscript.

(11) Still, the fact remains that Tolkien did produce a narrative of entrelacement.

(12) Tolkien needed a new image for ultimate bravery, one milder but not weaker than Beorhtwold's.

(13) Tolkien however used the play for both more and less than motifs.

(14) Tolkien always had close family ties in which Lewis had no wish to be involved.

(15) Tolkien tapped into his vast wealth of knowledge concerning mythologies to recast the Christian Mythos in terms non-believers can understand.

(16) In Tolkien 's mind , he wasn't just creating a fantasy world, but ancient mythology for England.

(17) J.R.R. Tolkien changed the face of the fantasy genre when he published "The Hobbit" in 1937 and subsequently his famous "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

(18) Tolkien successfully distinguishes between Elves by limiting their experiences and filtering their values through cultural motifs.

(19) A scholar of Old English, Tolkien argued that Beowulf should be read for its literary merits.

(20) A medievalist at the University of Oxford, Tolkien (1892-1973) used his knowledge of European history, legends and myths to create a world that is imaginary yet utterly persuasive.

(21) Tolkien caught an illness similar to typhus and was shipped back to England for hospital care.

(22) Auden and Tolkien wrote about the skills of inventing'secondary worlds "

(23) Maybe it would be appropriate to add one more element to the four Tolkien enumerates.

(24) He had real charm, which made canny figures such as Tolkien distrust him.

(25) The new realism owed nothing in technique or substance to the romances of Tolkien and Lewis.

(26) These are based on the books by British writer J. R. R. Tolkien about an imaginary Middle - earth.

(27) Its story was first told in a book by British writer J. R. R. Tolkien.