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Itinerant Songster
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Gleanings from the Biography
Here and there scattered through the late Humphrey Carpenter's authorized biography of Tolkien or fascinating little references to things, people, place, and events to which had a negative visceral reaction.
Upon reading the first one, I had to laugh. See what I mean..... Quote:
Were Parisian street Frenchmen part of the recipe for Tolkien's orcs in LotR? But you Anglophile Francophobes had better not be too quick to laugh at your cousins across the Channel. Take note: Quote:
Am I all wet, or is this a piece of orc-dom? Are there any such references from his Letters? Last edited by littlemanpoet; 01-10-2005 at 08:38 PM. |
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01-08-2005, 09:37 PM | #2 | |||||
Corpus Cacophonous
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Orcish traits ...
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Letter #66 (dated 6 May 1944): Quote:
Similarly, in Letter #71 (dated 25 May 1944): Quote:
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