The Bone Chests winter Tolkien wrote The Hobbit

Tolkien wrote The Hobbit

on Elantris

and how to live more consciously and compassionately

buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE

The Bone Chests winter Tolkien wrote The HobbitA TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA diligent historian and a superb writerTHE TIMESA gripping new history of the making of England as a nation. In December 1642, during the Civil War, Parliamentarian troops stormed Winchester Cathedral and smashed ten beautifully decorated wooden chests to the ground, using the bones inside as missiles to shatter the cathedrals stained glass windows. Afterwards, the clergy scrambled to collect the scattered remains: the