Today's Famous Birthday
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la_samtyrToday's honour goes to:
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
He was an author, academic, and philologist. You just may have heard of him and his books: "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion."
On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I did not and do not know why.'
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, No 163, to W.H. Auden, dated 1955
[We should all be so lucky as to scrawl something of the sort, and we are most fortunate that he *did* scrawl this little odd bit of writing, as it were.]
"I would draw some of the great tales in fullness,
and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched.
The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole,
and yet leave scope for other minds and hands,
wielding paint and music and drama..."-- J. R. R. Tolkien letter to Walt Whitman.
Now if that is not an invitation to "come and play", I don't know what is.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
He was an author, academic, and philologist. You just may have heard of him and his books: "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion."
On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I did not and do not know why.'
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, No 163, to W.H. Auden, dated 1955
[We should all be so lucky as to scrawl something of the sort, and we are most fortunate that he *did* scrawl this little odd bit of writing, as it were.]
"I would draw some of the great tales in fullness,
and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched.
The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole,
and yet leave scope for other minds and hands,
wielding paint and music and drama..."-- J. R. R. Tolkien letter to Walt Whitman.
Now if that is not an invitation to "come and play", I don't know what is.
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