... West Midlands. As he taught, he wrote the trilogy of books that served as a sequel to The Hobbit "the Lord of the Rings. He then died on September 2, 1973. He is well known by the reading public as the author of Farmer Giles of Ham, The Hobbit, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The Lots Tales and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings. Songs and rhymes are used in Tolkien's books ... to forward the plot. Songs that Tolkien writes in his ... books also suggest the telling of the history of Middle-Earth. Because Tolkien uses songs ... ...

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