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 ... ”