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In The Tower and The Ruin Michael Drout has given us a rare, brave work at the crossroads of scholarship and memoir, where the tales we read and the tales we are in really do meet.--Tom Hillman, author of Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring Michael Drout 's The Tower and the Ruin combines his reader's journey through the major works of Tolkien with his personal journey as the son of a reading father and the reading father of a son. The result is an erudite and insightful discussion that shines new light on old stories.--Verlyn Flieger, author of Splintered Light Michael Drout's The Tower and the Ruin is a splendid and original combination of sharp analysis and deeply-felt emotional memoir. We know what makes Tolkien's fiction good, but what makes it qualitatively different, so that it feels like entering a world, not just reading another book? And what makes it such an effective resource for those experiencing grief and loss? Drout answers both questions, powerfully, personally, convincingly. He shows how, more than any other work, The Lord of the Rings is not just a story. It's a life-changer.--Tom Shippey, author of The Road to Middle-Earth

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Michael D.C. Drout is a professor of English and director of the Center for the Study of the Medieval at Wheaton College. He specializes in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin, and is the author of How Tradition Works and Drout’s Quick and Easy Old English, among others. He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.

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