To: nickcarraway
FWIW, he sent the first draft of The Fellowship of the Ring to his son Christopher, who was flying for the RAF in North Africa. In serial format, hand-typed. Now those are some letters from home!
To: Billthedrill
Saruman is based on Rommel?
To: Billthedrill
He also did a Beowulf analysis that was fantastic, and I think it was he who also did the best Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I have ever read.
parsy, who has a tape of him/son reading the Beren and Luthien Tenuvial poem, which is like a half hour of so of pure ecstasy
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09/16/2009 9:58:13 PM PDT by
parsifal
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