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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
Rugby Union is also quite popular in the not noticibly bourgeois nation of Wales..... It is also popular in its native Midlands (the clue is in the name!) where many fine union teams are based (and where my father (of working class background, played at county level). Tolkien was educated not so many miles from Rugby and the photo in the biography shows him as a member of a XV.
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I just
knew you would know more about Rugby Union! Cheers!
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Originally Posted by SpM
On a more serious note, isn't football, or a football, mentioned somewhere in the early chapters of The Hobbit? And I am sure that Tolkien expresses his views on football somewhere in the Letters. Or is that cricket?
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"This won't do at all!"said Thorin. "If we don't get blown off or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football."
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There was life in Bombur still. There was a noise like the kicking of a flabby football, and the enraged spider fell off the branch, only catching itself with its own thread just in time.
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And I'm not the only one to notice the Crouch/Gollum resemblance too.