Tolkien slept here
Feb. 12th, 2011 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"On the whole, Tolkien was a dab hand with names (and a lecturer friend assures me this is because he was so terribly embarrassed about his own — indeed, Gollum’s now infamous postural shenanigans owe their origin to Tolkien’s frequent pacing around his Oxford study room cursing his ancestors for not being Smiths or O Donovonovons)"
http://abysswinksback.blogspot.com/2011/02/importance-of-names-in-fantasy.html
Also -
"New owners will be bound by an unusual sale clause – they will have to lock the cemetery gates each night to keep residents including Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkein safe."
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/8846849.Council_puts_buildings_up_for_sale/?ref=rss
http://abysswinksback.blogspot.com/2011/02/importance-of-names-in-fantasy.html
Also -
"New owners will be bound by an unusual sale clause – they will have to lock the cemetery gates each night to keep residents including Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkein safe."
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/8846849.Council_puts_buildings_up_for_sale/?ref=rss