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Edition: U.S. Article Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared WRAPUP 7-Volcanic ash grounds flights across much of Europe 11:46am EDT Travel chaos from volcanic ash cloud worst since 9/11 | Video 11:42am EDT Thai PM gives army extended powers amid crisis | Video 11:35am EDT UPDATE 1-US carriers cancel Europe flights due to ash 15 Apr 2010 Health insurers shifting costs ahead of law: report 15 Apr 2010 Goldman Sachs charged with fraud by SEC 11:53am EDT WRAPUP 7-Volcanic ash grounds flights across much of Europe 11:46am EDT Travel chaos from volcanic ash cloud worst since 9/11 | Video 11:42am EDT Obama makes hospitals allow gay visitation rights 10:15am EDT Chocolate may be good medicine for liver patients 15 Apr 2010 Tolkien says he's finally left grandfather's shadow Mark Egan NEW YORK Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:33am EDT The cover of author Simon Tolkien's second novel, ''The Inheritance,'' published this week by Minotaur Books. Credit: Reuters/Macmillan/Handout Related News Country star Alan Jackson on track with "Train" Tue, Mar 30 2010 Country star Alan Jackson on track with "Train" Mon, Mar 29 2010 Music biz insiders say Sony-Jackson deal makes sense Fri, Mar 19 2010 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Until he reached the age of 40, Simon Tolkien was sure of one thing; he could not write. Entertainment | People | Arts After all, his late grandfather J.R.R. Tolkien, famed for "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit," was the author in the family, and he was a London criminal barrister. "The one thing I knew from a very early age was I can't write," Tolkien told Reuters in an interview to promote his second novel, "The Inheritance," published this week by Minotaur Books. "We all knew my grandfather was this amazing man who could speak all these languages and do these amazing things; the professor," he said. Living in the shadow of such a literary titan kept the younger Tolkien from even considering trading in his wig and gown for writing. But as he turned 40 in 1999 and then with the hype ahead of the 2001 release of the Peter Jackson-directed blockbuster movie, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," he had something of a mid-life crisis and decided to write. "I wanted to create something," he said, adding that he found being a barrister stressful. Tolkien wrote a novel, which was rejected. He found a publisher for his second effort "Final Witness," published in the United States in 2002. Now at 51, with the publication of "The Inheritance," he feels he has established himself as an author and is comfortable with his name. "I feel much more at ease with my grandfather and being the grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien," he said. "Before I was writing I was very uncomfortable with it and when Jackson came on the scene I was exceedingly uncomfortable with it." FALLING-OUT Tolkien's support for the Jackson's adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" sparked a five-year falling-out with his father Christopher, who cut him off from managing his grandfather's literary estate. But Tolkien said he has since made up with his dad and that he grew less fond of Jackson's work over the trilogy. "I thought Jackson's movies got worse and worse as they went on, he lost character, he stopped dealing with character and you got more and more special effects," he said. In Tolkien's latest book, an estranged son is accused of murdering his father but the policeman who charged him begins to suspect he may be innocent and reopens his investigation even as the murder trial is taking place. Tolkien feels he has written something his grandfather would have appreciated. "I think he would be more pleased with me," he said. Fans of his grandfather's work can look forward to more movies. 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