Interesting guy...............


Writing was slow, because Tolkien had a full-time academic position, and needed to earn further money as a university examiner.^[15] Tolkien abandoned The Lord of the Rings during most of 1943 and only restarted it in April 1944,^[12] as a serial for his son Christopher Tolkien, who was sent chapters as they were written while he was serving in South Africa with the Royal Air Force. Tolkien made another concerted effort in 1946, and showed the manuscript to his publishers in 1947.^[12] The story was effectively finished the next year, but Tolkien did not complete the revision of earlier parts of the work until 1949.^[12] The original manuscripts, which total 9,250 pages, now reside in the J.R.R. Tolkien Collection at Marquette University.^[16]