Having read recently "On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis" by Louis Markos, I was inspired to read more about this great and misunderstood man (at least by the "literati").
I had heard how after LOTR were voted the greatest books of the 20th C, how the literati and critics were "horrified". Pearce offers several examples in chapter 1, and begins to examine how Tolkien is misunderstood because "myth" (and his writings, the meaning of his writings to the reader) is misunderstood. Misunderstanding due to "mythunderstanding".
In chapter 2, Pearce gives some biographical detail which "influenced" Tolkien's writings (without getting into Psychoanalysis, which Tolkien and Lewis detested). Most importantly, how Tolkien's mother passed on the Catholic faith which accompanied him his whole life.
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