Ake Ohlmarks did so in his introduction to the Swedish translation of LotR; Tolkien wrote in reply to his publisher (Letter 229):
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Both rings were round, and there the resemblance ceases.
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I also find his closing remark very amusing, after he corrects the many wrong "facts" contained in that introduction:
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Why should I be made an object of fiction while still alive?
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'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..
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