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Midnighter

http://www.tolkien.co.uk/features/Pages/Spring-Competition.aspx

To celebrate the publication of new editions of J.R.R. Tolkien A Biography by Humphrey Carpenterand Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth, we are offering you the chance to win a set of these books, and Tolkien and the Great War will be signed and personally inscribed by the author.

Humphrey Carpenter’s J.R.R. Tolkien A Biography is widely acclaimed as the definitive biographical work about Professor Tolkien. Carpenter is the only biographer to have met Tolkien, and he did so on a number of occasions; as part of his research, he was given unrestricted access to Tolkien’s papers and interviewed family and friends. All of this combined to produce a fascinating and readable study of a uniquely complex personality.

John Garth’s Tolkien and the Great War brilliantly draws upon Tolkien’s personal papers to explore his early years and wartime experiences, bringing to life the horrors Tolkien faced in the battle of the Somme and introducing the close circle of friends who were to shape Tolkien’s life and work forever.

To add these must-have titles to your collection, all you need to do is answer the following question:

Tolkien was one of four members of which exclusive club?

a) TUC
b) TCBS
c) TWA

Email your answer to [EMAIL="tolkienwebsite@harpercollins.co.uk"]tolkienwebsite@harpercollins.co.uk[/EMAIL] putting Spring Competition in the subject line.

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Matryoshka

Finally, in our last newsletter we gave you the chance to win the new editions of J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter and Tolkien and the Great War signed by John Garth. Congratulations to Ana Filipa Tendeiro, who was our lucky winner.