X-link to the Non-Fiction megathread for two Tolkien-related bargains:
@ $1.99 each in US and/or Canada:
- Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by Tolkien scholar John Garth, a biography focusing on the WWI years and their subsequent personal and literary influence, which won him a 2004 Mythopoeic Award for Scholarship, from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US only.
- A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 by Joseph Loconte, an associate professor of history at The King's College in New York City, examining the faith-related portions of both writers' works as influenced their wartime experiences, out from HarperCollins' Zondervan imprint, which is a dedicated Christian religious line, also discounted in Canada.