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Old 12-03-2004, 07:32 PM   #1
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Foul! I cry Foul! (Possibly even Havoc. . .where are my dogs of war?)

This very letter and topic was recently discussed over in the Cellar Door thread.

Harumph, I say - Harumph.

(I woulda got this one, too *sulks*)
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Old 12-03-2004, 07:49 PM   #2
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White-Hand Methinks he doth cry foul too much ...

Professor Hedgethistle! Are you daring to suggest that I would not have got it without the Cellar Door discussion? Harumph indeed to that!



Actually, it's one of those passages from the Letters that really sticks in my mind. Can't think why ...
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Old 12-03-2004, 08:24 PM   #3
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Oh, SpM, you left out some of the best bits, which I shall quote here before I have to turn the thread over to you.

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I stood the hot-air they let off as long as I could; but when I head the Yank burbling about 'Feudalism' and its results on English class-distinctions and social behavour, I opened a broadside. The poor boob had not, of course, the very faintest notions about 'Feudalism', or history at all--being a chemical engineer.
I can just imagine the scene.
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Old 12-16-2004, 08:36 AM   #4
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Boots We don't have to wait 'til Christmas to open this thread, do we?

I think SpM has forgotten about this thread too and not only the Musical thread.

A quiz if you please, Mr. SaucepanMan.
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Old 12-16-2004, 07:39 PM   #5
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Oops. I keep losing track of which Quiz threads I'm on. Must be getting out of practice ...

Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay, together with this early Christmas present:

In what circumstances did Tolkien adopt the title of Member for Longbottom, and in what way was it appropriate to him?

Shouldn't be too difficult, I suspect.
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Old 01-04-2005, 02:32 AM   #6
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Can you give a little clue to this one, Saucy? I have no idea where to start looking; it sounds like something that could have belonged to the time of his youth and the clubs that were begun then, but must have been after the writing of LotR.

As to the reason it would be appropriate, I assume because of his "love of the Halflings' leaf"...
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Old 01-10-2005, 03:17 AM   #7
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*Esty pokes Saucy...
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Old 01-10-2005, 03:32 AM   #8
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I'm sorry. I had overlooked this one.

A hint? Look in the Letters.
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Old 01-11-2005, 10:17 AM   #9
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Praise Scull and Hammond for an excellent index - praise them with great praise! I was able to find this answer without reading the Letters in their entirety. Tolkien agreed to an informal association with the Tolkien Society of America and suggested that he would
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as an inveterate pipe smoker be happy to accept the title of Member for Longbottom...
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