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Post by cooper67 on Jan 16, 2020 21:41:14 GMT
95.
Son of JRR.
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Post by telfordstoke on Jan 16, 2020 21:57:27 GMT
RIP. Fascinating character
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Post by lordb on Jan 16, 2020 22:13:51 GMT
RIP
Local connections too
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Post by auntiegeorge on Jan 16, 2020 22:57:24 GMT
He was a scrupulous curator of his father's works. But he intensely disliked the commercialisation of those works in the last thirty years or so. He said:
“Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of our time. The commercialisation [of The Lord of the Rings] has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing”.
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Jan 16, 2020 23:21:59 GMT
R.I.P.
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Post by maninasuitcase on Jan 16, 2020 23:57:31 GMT
RIP
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Post by yeokel on Jan 17, 2020 11:35:06 GMT
He was a scrupulous curator of his father's works. But he intensely disliked the commercialisation of those works in the last thirty years or so. That maybe so, but his father’s legacy ( and the commercial market for it ) saved him from ever having to go out and get a proper job. |
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Post by NassauDave on Jan 17, 2020 11:43:16 GMT
Joe In Oz where are you?
Do your job! It’s your place to place obscure obituaries on here.
Your reputation as the Oatcake Grim Reaper is in tatters ya drongo.
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Post by auntiegeorge on Jan 17, 2020 11:51:04 GMT
He was a scrupulous curator of his father's works. But he intensely disliked the commercialisation of those works in the last thirty years or so. That maybe so, but his father’s legacy ( and the commercial market for it ) saved him from ever having to go out and get a proper job. Untrue. Not only did he edit his father's works he was a novelist in his own right and a lecturer in English at New College, Oxford. |
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Post by cooper67 on Jan 17, 2020 12:01:16 GMT
Joe In Oz where are you? Do your job! It’s your place to place obscure obituaries on here. Your reputation as the Oatcake Grim Reaper is in tatters ya drongo. He was hardly obscure. |
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Post by riverman on Jan 17, 2020 12:06:45 GMT
That would be his brother, John, who was a priest up at Hartshill. |
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Post by lordb on Jan 17, 2020 12:17:00 GMT
That would be his brother, John, who was a priest up at Hartshill. Ah |
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Post by mattyd on Jan 17, 2020 19:15:36 GMT
Taken far too young...95...No age at all...Compared to Gollum...Just a Boy...
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Post by felonious on Jan 17, 2020 19:23:35 GMT
Taken far too young...95...No age at all...Compared to Gollum...Just a Boy... Don't you mean Smeagol, precious? |
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