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Tolkien became the Fantasy author, and LTR the Fantasy series, against which all others were measured. “With the publication his epic story ‘The Lord of the Rings’ (LTR) in the mid-1950s, or more correctly the success of the US editions in the 1960s, J.R.R. Tolkien’s works had begun life as a “mythology” for England: the desire of an English-parented immigrant born in British-ruled South Africa to give to his adopted English home a “national” tradition of myth comparable to that of the Greeks or Romans, the Scandinavians or Finns. Ironically as I grew older and read more I learned that J.R.R. Celticness and Tolkienesque seemed an almost perfect match. Coming from an Irish background, where legend and history seemed to be bound up with every field and hill, Tolkien’s tales were no different in tone from the stories my mother or teachers had to tell of “Old Ireland”. Thus began a life-long love affair with the legendarium of Middle-earth and a world that in my youth felt as familiar to me as any earthly location. It’s now the site of kitsch Spanish-style holiday villas and apartments for Dublin’s would-be elites – or what’s left of them in these depressionary times). I have a distinct recollection of listening to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins and his dwarfish companions and then going out with my friends to our lunchbreak, playing between the gale-driven curtains of sand on a beach which seemed to go on forever (my primary school was a vast, many-passaged Victorian pile on the edge of the sea, its playground the dunes and seashore that lay around. As far as I remember he began reading to us at the start of the school term in a warm autumnal September until the tale reached its culmination at the Christmas break amidst a chill and blustery December. A native of Belfast he breathed life into the storytelling with an actor’s vigour (he was also a talented artist) that kept us in rapt attention. Every Friday morning for an hour or so he would read from Tolkien’s children’s book, The Hobbit, to a spell-struck room of otherwise unruly Irish school kids. Tolkien was at the age of ten or eleven and through the imaginative classes of a teacher whose name has long since left me (Mister Richmond?) but whose influences have long remained behind. My first experience of the works of J.R.R.

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