TolKien

" And after this 'nothing else really happened'. Tolkien did his job, raised his family, wrote his books, pre-eminently The Hobbit, which came out in 1937, and The Lord of the Rings, published in three volumes in 1954-55. ... He retired from his second Oxford Chair in 1959. He remained all his life a committed Christian and Catholic, and died, tow years after his wife, in 1973. No extra-marital affairs, no sexual oddities, no scandals, strange accusations, or political involvement- nothing in a way for a poor biographer to get his teeth into." He was a philologist.

This description of the author endears his writings to me even more.