David Brawn the Publishing Director for Estates here at HarperCollins HQ in Hammersmith, is the font of all Tolkien knowledge (well in the building at least!).
He has put together a special blog celebrating the 80th anniversary of J.R.R. first putting pen to paper and starting work on The Hobbit…
My daughter came home from school on the last Thursday in June happier than I think I have seen her for a long time. Why? She had just sat the last of her GCSE exams, and for her the summer was about to start. I suggested that she show some sympathy for the examiners, the poor army of academics whose summer won’t begin until they have finished marking the work of hundreds of thousands of students – but my sympathy was, of course, not shared by my daughter. So much for Sweet Sixteen!
