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Mathew Lyons

The Spectator

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Books / The intellectual passions of J.R.R. Tolkien

It was December 1942 and J.R.R. Tolkien was having doubts about his new book, a sequel to The Hobbit published five years earlier. ‘Is such an...

27.10.2026 10

The Spectator

Mathew Lyons

Books / The intellectual passions of J.R.R. Tolkien

It was December 1942 and J.R.R. Tolkien was having doubts about his new book, a sequel to The Hobbit published five years earlier. ‘Is such an...

27.10.2026 10

The Spectator

Mathew Lyons

Books / The intellectual passions of J.R.R. Tolkien

Books / The intellectual passions of J.R.R. Tolkien

It was December 1942 and J.R.R. Tolkien was having doubts about his new book, a sequel to The Hobbit published five years earlier. ‘Is such an...

23.10.2026 20

The Spectator

Mathew Lyons

Books / How Hans Holbein brought portraiture to England

10.12.2025 30

The Spectator

Mathew Lyons

Books / How Hans Holbein brought portraiture to England

10.12.2025 10

The Spectator

Mathew Lyons