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JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success'

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday October 28 2015, @10:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the one-ring-to-rule-them-all dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

"I never expected a money success," said Tolkien, pacing the room, as he does constantly when he speaks. "In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties.

"It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

The piece is a pleasant read about the greatest fantasy writer of all time.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by isostatic on Wednesday October 28 2015, @11:27PM

    by isostatic (365) on Wednesday October 28 2015, @11:27PM (#255803) Journal

    This interview was originally published in The Telegraph magazine on March 22. 1968.

    I know slashdot was a bit slow with news, but this takes the biscuit ;)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:06AM (#255817)

    ssh! they're searching for metadata!

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by arslan on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:47AM

    by arslan (3462) on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:47AM (#255829)

    At least its not a dupe.... yet.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by jdavidb on Thursday October 29 2015, @02:22AM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Thursday October 29 2015, @02:22AM (#255857) Homepage Journal

    I know slashdot was a bit slow with news

    Eh? What's that?

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