One dreary day, a professor was sitting at his desk. He jotted down a sentence on a blank paper: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” This line sparked J.R.R. Tolkien’s idea of The Hobbit. Later, Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings and it was turned into one of the highest-grossing and critically acclaimed film series of all time. It took J.R.R. Tolkien over a dozen years to plan and write The Lord of the Rings. So how exactly did he manage to complete such a gargantuan task — and write weaving storylines on top of it all? Read more>>