J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend (ISBN 9780745955148) is a 219-page biography of J.R.R. Tolkien by Colin Duriez, published in 2012 by Lion Hudson Ltd.. It is intended for the every-day reader, as opposed to being a work of Tolkien scholarship.

Duriez chose to begin writing the biography in part because of new documents, private letters, etc. that surfaced after the time Humphrey Carpenter wrote J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, which had been the single prevalent account of Tolkien's life.

Table of contents

 * Foreword
 * 1) "I am in fact a hobbit..."
 * 2) Edith
 * 3) Schooldays and the T.C.B.S.
 * 4) Oxford and the dawn of a New Life
 * 5) The Shadow of War
 * 6) War and Loss
 * 7) Recovery, "W", and Half a Million Words
 * 8) Leeds and Dragons
 * 9) Oxford and C.S. Lewis
 * 10) Of Hobbits and Inklings
 * 11) Tolkien's Second War
 * 12) The Struggle to Publish
 * 13) The Tolkien Phenomenon, and Farewell
 * Afterword
 * Notes
 * Select Bibliography
 * Index