Re: Top 20 Children's Books


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Posted by Dave Thewlis on April 05, 2010 at 05:39:58 user dthewlis.

In Reply to: Re: Top 20 Children's Books posted by Peter Ceresole on April 04, 2010 at 09:57:12:

Do you think so? I know that the book he actually wrote for his children was 'The Hobbit', but I believe that as he wrote 'Lord of the Rings' he tried it out on them as he progressed; it's for older children, but still I think for children.

Tolkien certainly sent the chapters of one part of LOTR to his son Christopher, but as Christopher was at the time serving in the RAF (I think) in South Africa it doesn't really support the children argument very well.

I don't think Tolkien was very much concerned as to whether his readers would be eight, eighteen, or eighty so long as it was a "rattling good yarn" - I think like most really good authors primarily he wrote it for himself, although he refers to "those who asked for more about hobbits" having to wait quite a while.


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