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What an interesting connection, LMP! I haven't read Sylvie and Bruno yet, but I just dug out my Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll (I'm assuming you mean the same illustrations, by John Tenniel; mine's a paperback edition though.) and will start reading them as soon as I can. Half a yard is shorter than the average Hobbit, of course, but perhaps this is part of the "leaf-mould" that went into the fertile creative soil of The Hobbit and LotR.
It's an interesting coincidence that has been noted before, that two Oxford dons should write such popular children's books!
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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