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calimac ([personal profile] calimac) wrote2014-10-18 07:52 am

Tolkien trivia

A Tolkien reference that it took me enough effort to track down that I wanted to write about it, but which turned out to be so mindbogglingly trivial that I couldn't bear to do so here. It went straight to the Tolkien Society blog, where they might appreciate it.

[identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com 2014-10-19 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Tolkien pops up obliquely in The Late Scholar, Jill Paton Walsh's latest Wimsey/Vine novel. I mention this merely as a datum, not as an incentive; the book tries to be another Gaudy Night (Wimsey! and Vane! in Oxford!) and is so not.

[identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com 2014-10-19 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks to the indefatigable Joe R. Christopher, I know about that one. It caused some ruckus in Tolkien fandom for its completely inaccurate portrayal of Tolkien as reluctant to take on female pupils.