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The book of the century: The Lord of the Rings (Part 1 of 2)

27 mins | Dec 1, 2017
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How good was J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic? Despite its cold reception amongst literary critics, Andrew O'Hehir writing in Salon in 2001, argues that is was the greatest book of the 20th Century.

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