02-16-2004, 09:43 PM
"a rampant Germanophile who was involved with a clique of like-minded Anglo-Saxons who strived [sic] to have all Latin words removed from the English language"<br>
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"It is a good thing that his great goal was not achieved in his lifetime, that of making his ridiculous fairy tales the 'National Myth of the English People'."<br>
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Please could you supply evidence for these strong assertions? I've never heard them before. As far as I knew Tolkien was just an old-fashioned Oxford don who drank in my favourite pub long before I was there (The Eagle and Child) and wrote a few enjoyable and harmless books (harmless, that is, unless you throw them at someone; my single-volume copy of TLOTR could do someone significant damage).<br>
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Shaun <p></p><i></i>
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"It is a good thing that his great goal was not achieved in his lifetime, that of making his ridiculous fairy tales the 'National Myth of the English People'."<br>
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Please could you supply evidence for these strong assertions? I've never heard them before. As far as I knew Tolkien was just an old-fashioned Oxford don who drank in my favourite pub long before I was there (The Eagle and Child) and wrote a few enjoyable and harmless books (harmless, that is, unless you throw them at someone; my single-volume copy of TLOTR could do someone significant damage).<br>
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Shaun <p></p><i></i>