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December 2, 2025

Twenty experts on the book that got them through their 20s – part two

Katarina Båth, Lund University; Dr Nada Saadaoui, University of Cumbria; Ellen Howley, Dublin City University; Emily Hauser, University of Exeter; Jenni Ramone, Nottingham Trent University; Lewis Mondal, Royal Holloway, University of London; Martha McGill, University of Cambridge; University of Warwick; Olumayokun Ogunde, City St George's, University of London; Scarlett Baron, UCL, and Tom Emanuel, University of Glasgow

We asked 20 of our academic experts to recommend the book that steered them through this challenging decade.

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September 10, 2024

Tom Emanuel, University of Glasgow

The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien contains nearly 250 individual works spanning more than five decades, 70 of them previously unpublished.

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November 21, 2023

Tom Emanuel, University of Glasgow

Tolkien was far more concerned that we take his novel on its own terms as a work of art than that we arrive at some correct interpretation.