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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3 January 1892
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Writer, linguist
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South Africa - England

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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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