Arne Zettersten's J.R.R. Tolkien's Double Worlds and Creative Process: Language and Life is the author's description of the overlap of the academic and creative work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien was, most famously, the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as other justly famous works of fantasy. However, he was also a brilliant linguist and philologist and professor of English language and literature at Oxford, specializing in Anglo-Saxon, Old English and other aspects of the history of our language. He also worked on the Oxford English Dictionary, (as also discussed in a brief essay by Peter Gilliver, an associate editor of the OED.)
In this book, Zettersten, who worked with Tolkien in the latter part of the great man's academic career, looks at how his academic work informed his creative work.
If you are interested in Tolkien, the creative mind and process, or the history of our language, check out this book.
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