Retrospective…
One year– last year– in one place, compressed into 40 (lovely) seconds by Erik Solheim:
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As we retreat into rhythms, we might wish an elfish Happy Birthday to John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who was born on this date in 1892. A philologist and professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, Tolkein is better known for the series of books of which he said “my work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and rather terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody).”
(Tolkein’s friend and fellow Inkling, C.S. Lewis, when told by Tolkien of a new character with which he was populating The Lord of the Rings, replied “Not another f—ing dwarf!”)
