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Originally Posted by Abecedary
And yet easily the best known of those multi-volume fantasy epics was written by a man who was working full-time as a professor. And he wrote it because he had a story that he wanted to tell...to his children.
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Ironically enough, the Lord of the Rings was published in an unauthorized paperback edition in the US. When the authorized edition was published soon after, there was a quote from Tolkien on the back asking anyone who respected the author's wishes to buy the authorized edition, and no other.
Tolkien didn't like piracy any more than any other author.