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Reasons for Liking Tolkien

Jenny Turner: The Hobbit Habit, 15 November 2001

... of the Letters were also originally published by Allen and Unwin and are now with HarperCollins.I don’t want to defend Tolkien or to attack him, but to describe how the strange power of his book casts a spell over readers, as children, as pubescents, as adolescents, as adults, a spell some of them grow out of and others ...

The Tower

Andrew O’Hagan, 7 June 2018

... sitting room with the twinkling lights outside.‘You go to bed in the house that keeps you safe, don’t you?’ said Zainu Deen, the father of Zainab Deen, who lived in Flat 115 on the 14th floor with her son, Jeremiah. Everybody said that Zainab had always been independent: she left home at 18 and worked all the hours she could at the Chelsea and ...

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