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The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation Medieval Flourishing in San Francisco’s gayA leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J. R. R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world. No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J. R. R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle eartha world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine that any single person could have simply created it, seemingly out of thin air. In The Tower and the Ruin, Michael D. C. Drout takes