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Faramir Fan · 06-26-2003, 08:08 AM

I just recently have spent time with a retired University Professor who I now do some work for. He was educated at Oxford and told me the he knew Professor Tolkien, not well, but well enough that when he was a graduate student, he was invited to his house for tea. He said it was just after the Hobbit was published. He told me that he found Professor Tolkien to be a very shy and reserved man and that he found it hard to believe that in his quiet unassuming demeanor that there was the imagination to create not just a whole world but indeed existance...

06-26-2003, 08:08 AM	#13
Faramir Fan Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 72	I just recently have spent time with a retired University Professor who I now do some work for. He was educated at Oxford and told me the he knew Professor Tolkien, not well, but well enough that when he was a graduate student, he was invited to his house for tea. He said it was just after the Hobbit was published. He told me that he found Professor Tolkien to be a very shy and reserved man and that he found it hard to believe that in his quiet unassuming demeanor that there was the imagination to create not just a whole world but indeed existance... __________________ "A new character has come on the scene (I am sure I did not invent him, I did not even want him, though I like him, but there he came walking into the woods of Ithilien): Faramir, the brother of Boromir..." J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters No. 66