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General Topics >> JRR Tolkien: academic, philologist – and prankster extraordinaire

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Shirrif (Moderator)

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JRR Tolkien: academic, philologist – and prankster extraordinaire

16 Aug, 2022
2022-8-16 12:54:13 PM UTC

The celebrated fantasy author wasn’t as solemn as posterity thinks – he was a wit both on the page and in his personal life

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what ... prankster-extraordinaire/

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16 Aug, 2022
2022-8-16 1:30:41 PM UTC

A bit of a shame they enlisted John to do a piece and that piece amounted to less than a minute of read. I know that am ~~sure~~ John could have said so much more.

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