Tolkien himself

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by TheLostPilgrim

Does anyone else wonder Tolkien would've been like even say in casual conversation? I just wonder if he was someone of a pedantic sort, a "bore" to talk to, being an academic...He seems to have been, in general, a highly intelligent man. Is there anyone else that wishes they might've had the chance to meet him?

I do wonder about the academics you have met! Academics tend not to do small talk certainly.... but if you read his letters he gives the impression of someone who it would have been delightful to meet. For me the greater grief is that I without realisng it lived in the next village to Christopher Wiseman his closest schoolfriend and who lived well into his nineties by which time I was already a Tolkien devote. T