I wonder if his interlocutors got the point?
Tolkien the Blunt
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I wonder how many drafts it took to get to this masterpiece of a reply to such a vile request.
As a man who persisted in singing the hymns in Latin (loudly), I believe his first reaction must have been more similar to Gandalf’s “Throw yourself in next time, you fool of a Took!”
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I like to think he gave comfort to those who were obeying, but reluctantly.
I should have liked to know what was the question to which Tolkien was responding.
Presumably his ancestry. Probably from a German company that wanted to publish his work but could not do so under the Nazis if he was Jewish.