Are you important? Is your work marketable?

“I do not really think that I am frightfully important.” So wrote J.R.R. Tolkien in a letter to the poet, W.H.Auden, on 7 June 1955. This was despite the fact that The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings had already been published. The Hobbit, especially, received wide critical acclaim when it was first published. […]

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