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As far as I know, we're all on the near side of the grave
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If I'm not dead, why did they put me in a barrow? And why did my ear just fall off?
By the way, 'cold be hand and heart and bone' is right. I haven't had a fire for five years, and nobody thought to leave me any scotch. Even my chilblains are shivering.
You know, as I recall
that article about false teeth was a joke. Any fule kno that the TS keep Tolkien's pipe and teeth in a priceless reliquary decorated with quotations in Tengwar from the secret letters: the one that fits Tom Bombadil into the
Silmarillion cosmology, and the other one from November 1968 that contains a drawing of Durin's bane.