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Highlights: Christopher Tolkien, William Byrd, A Hidden Life, poetry-painting collaboration
The Catholic Culture Podcast
The Lord of the Rings
Christopher Tolkien was sent by the RAF to train as a Spitfire pilot in South Africa. And his father during this period wrote Book Four of the Lord of the Rings. Christopher would come back from flying his plane and go off and read a chapter, right? You can get a sense of this reading between the lines in the published letters of J.R.R. are talking.
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