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Lindir · 06-18-2004, 10:39 AM

Was it Mrs. Tolkien and Mrs. Unwin?

Oh, I dunno

Estelyn Telcontar · 06-18-2004, 12:01 PM

Nice guess, Lindir, but it doesn't appear that those two ladies had that profound an effect on their respective husbands!

I'm sorry, but finding this answer will take some researching in the biography.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 06-19-2004, 05:50 AM

Elaine Griffiths, a friend and former pupil of Tolkien's and Susan Dagnall from the staff of George Allen and Unwin.

Estelyn Telcontar · 06-19-2004, 06:27 AM

Right, Squatter, and we should be very thankful that they were friends, had the right connections, and were interested in Tolkien's story!

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 06-19-2004, 08:20 AM

Which item of statuary did Tolkien often employ as a hat stand?

Son of Númenor · 06-23-2004, 01:50 PM

I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say that Professor Tolkien was wont to hang his cap on a replica of the Statue of David.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 06-23-2004, 03:11 PM

Good guess, but you want someone less biblical. The statue's in a place where Tolkien often had business.

06-18-2004, 10:39 AM	#1
Lindir Haunting Spirit Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The Void Posts: 98	Was it Mrs. Tolkien and Mrs. Unwin? Oh, I dunno __________________ Come not between the Nazgul and his prey!Or he will not slay thee in thy turn.He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye.

06-18-2004, 12:01 PM	#2
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Nice guess, Lindir, but it doesn't appear that those two ladies had that profound an effect on their respective husbands! I'm sorry, but finding this answer will take some researching in the biography. __________________ '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...'

06-19-2004, 05:50 AM	#3
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	Prosaic muses of the Shire Elaine Griffiths, a friend and former pupil of Tolkien's and Susan Dagnall from the staff of George Allen and Unwin. __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

06-19-2004, 06:27 AM	#4
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Right, Squatter, and we should be very thankful that they were friends, had the right connections, and were interested in Tolkien's story! __________________ '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...'

06-19-2004, 08:20 AM	#5
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	The Professorial Iconoclast Which item of statuary did Tolkien often employ as a hat stand? __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

06-23-2004, 01:50 PM	#6
Son of Númenor A Shade of Westernesse Join Date: May 2004 Location: The last wave over Atalantë Posts: 515	Fedoras by Michelangelo I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say that Professor Tolkien was wont to hang his cap on a replica of the Statue of David. __________________ "This miserable drizzling afternoon I have been reading up old military lecture-notes again:- and getting bored with them after an hour and a half. I have done some touches to my nonsense fairy language - to its improvement."

06-23-2004, 03:11 PM	#7
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	Nice thought, but no Good guess, but you want someone less biblical. The statue's in a place where Tolkien often had business. __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

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