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

My resolution this year is to read more nonfiction, and this was the first NF book to come up as I scrolled through my nook tars. Oddly enough, I read most of it on Tolkien's 127th birthday. This is a very easy to read, sometimes speculative look at Tolkien's life mostly before his epics. It does an especially fine job chronicling his relationship with his wife and his Inkling friends. I learned a lot of new things about him and would recommend this to any LOTR fan who wants a quick look into the life of this astonishing person.