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The Literary Life Podcast · Jan 27, 2026
Episode 313: The Tower and the Ruin with Dr. Michael Drout
“Original publisher of The Lord of the Rings who took financial risk publishing it for artistic merit, offering Tolkien 50% of profits instead of advance”
Tolkien's compositional process and manuscript revisionsEucatastrophe and consolation in fairy storiesLiterary tradition and intertextual meaning-making
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