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In a Radio 4 programme on Tolkien - 'Fired by the Ring' - a couple of years back Brian Sibley interviewed Philip Pullman, who reacted to Sibley's suggestion that one reason for the popularity of LotR was that it wasn't set on another planet, but in the ancient past of this planet by laughing his usual mocking laugh, & replying 'I'll believe that when someone digs up a fossilised hobbit!'
Well, who's laughing now, Mr Pullman?
(I think that proves not only what a rubbish writer Pullman is, but also what a sad excuse for a human being he is too.
Not that I have any animus towards the Tolkien-hating, archaeologically-ignorant jerk.)
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