http://www.toqonline.com/blog/tolkien-master-of-middle-earth/ Western Perspectives on Man, Culture, and Politics Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.toqonline.com/blog/tolkien-master-of-middle-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-2993 gregory Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:05:31 +0000 http://www.toqonline.com/?p=2797#comment-2993 I wouldn’t say universal. W.H. Auden praised Tolkien on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, when the first edition of Lord of the Rings was first published, in the 1950s. Excepting a few porcine Marxists like Edmund Wilson, this was a time when actually literary figures wrote the reviews for newspapers and magazines. I wouldn’t say universal. W.H. Auden praised Tolkien on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, when the first edition of Lord of the Rings was first published, in the 1950s. Excepting a few porcine Marxists like Edmund Wilson, this was a time when actually literary figures wrote the reviews for newspapers and magazines.

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