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JRR Tolkien was 38 when he started writing The Hobbit, which wouldn't get finished and published until he was in his mid 40s.
by adzm 1y ago
JRR Tolkien was 38 when he started writing The Hobbit, which wouldn't get finished and published until he was in his mid 40s.
- morkalork 1y agoFrank Herbert and Dune is another; he also apparently spent 6 years laying the ground work for it. Both he and Richard Adams had trouble even getting their books published, sci-fi and fantasy as genres not taken seriously at all back then.