Remy, you are absolutely right. I found it in The Collected Poems, vol. I, p. 163. The online version of The New Age is available online here: https://modjourn.org/issue/bdr445815/ On p. 524 the reviewer (who prefers Mr. H.C. Harwood’s “From the Youth of All Nations”) writes, ‘Mr. Tolkien’s “Goblin Feet” patter in rag-time. Mr. G.B. Smith fancies trees moaning “as for remembered sin.”’
Many issues of Times are now available on archive.org. Some interesting finds:
Obituary of Elaine Griffiths: "She was devoted to her supervisor, J.R.R. Tolkien, whom she admired as a scholar rather than as a writer of fairy tales. The admiration was evidently mutual and Tolkien regarded her as the best pupil he had ever had. Through her connections with Allen & Unwin in the 1930s the manuscript of The Hobbit came to the notice of the publishers." https://archive.org/details/per_times_ ... age/20/mode/2up?q=tolkien
Pauline Baynes: "I've just stopped being vice-president of the Merseyside Tolkien Society. Don’t laugh. It’s a very learned body. A most irate correspondence went on in their journal when my Tolkien map came out with all the little fault that various people found. All I could say lamely was that I did take the map down to Tolkien before it was reproduced: he just gave it a backward glance and said ‘Ah yes, there they all-are. Now Fritz (her husband) what will you have to drink...’ If it was good enough for him, it had to be good enough for them." https://archive.org/details/per_times_ ... _58915/mode/2up?q=tolkien
In late 1933 she began work on a B.Litt. thesis under Tolkien’s supervision, *Notes and Observations on the Vocabulary of Ancrene Wisse MS CCCC 402*. By this time Tolkien was planning an edition of *Ancrene Wisse* (**Ancrene Riwle*), and had acquired a set of rotographs (photographic facsimiles) of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 402 for private study. Griffiths now became his *de facto* assistant, made a diplomatic transcript of the manuscript, and made a nearly complete glossary and index. At the same time, she gave informal tuition in English to undergraduates at Cherwell Edge. -C&G
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