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En esta segunda edicio¿n espan~ola se proporcionan nuevos datos que nos permiten profundizar au¿n ma¿s en Francis Morgan y la influencia que ejercio¿ sobre su protegido J.R.R. Tolkien, y tambie¿n se presenta nuevo material gra¿fico que nos ayuda a ser parti¿cipes de un fascinante viaje al pasado.Este libro es una biografi¿a, pero no so¿lo es una biografi¿a. Reconstruye la poco conocida trayectoria de Francis Morgan Osborne (1857-1935), un sacerdote cato¿lico nacido en El Puerto de Santa Mari¿a (Ca¿diz), tutor y "segundo padre" de J.R.R. Tolkien, uno de los autores contempora¿neos ma¿s conocidos.Nos encontramos ante el resultado de una investigacio¿n exhaustiva llevada a cabo entre Espan~a e Inglaterra que ha contado, entre otros, con el apoyo de Priscilla Tolkien, hija del autor, cuyo testimonio ha permitido conocer informaciones nunca antes publicadas sobre el vi¿nculo del autor con Espan~a a trave¿s de la figura de su tutor.
This book is a biography, but also more than that. It reconstructs the little known personal journey of Francis Morgan Osborne (1857-1935), a Catholic priest born in Port St Mary's (Spain), guardian and "second father" of J.R.R. Tolkien, one of the most celebrated authors of our time.This is the result of a thorough investigation, carried out between Spain and England, with the support, among others, of Priscilla Tolkien, daughter of the author, whose testimony provided previously unpublished insight into the connection between her father and Spain, through his guardian.
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