J.R.R.Tolkien
Deeply nostalgic for an idealised past that may or may not have existed, Tolkien combined a scholarly precision with the heart of a daydreaming hobbit.
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Beneath his pipe-smoke seriousness, you could sense a sly twinkle of humour – though he probably wouldn't admit it.
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He could turn a casual walk in the woods into a mythical epic with its own language, economy, and backstory. He was an eccentric professor and a medieval bard, prone to losing himself in philological rabbit holes or delighting in words like "cellar door" just because they sounded nice.
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...Tolkien were your grandpa?
He would have insisted on reading you bedtime stories he'd spent 20 years writing
and refused to simplify a single elvish genealogy.🧝
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