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

"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: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday October 29 2015, @05:01AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday October 29 2015, @05:01AM (#255886) Journal

    I don't quite understand why people are so hung up about copyright law

    Well, obviously, that is because you are a shill. Or, if you are not a shill, you are a publishing company representative, which is the same thing. If you are not either of those, perhaps you are a person with a novel on your hard-drive, which your mom has said is "pretty good", and you think you may be the next Orson Scott Card (omg, unless you are Orson Scott Card!! AC Decloaking off the starboard bow! Evasive action Moroni Alpha Kolob!!!). So, basically, you do not understand because of one of two possibilities: you are either incapable of understanding (a rather common condition, nothing to be ashamed of, but maybe you should not be posting on the internets), or you are paid to be incapable of understanding. This latter is the more serious condition, because it means you have moral deficits rather than cognitive deficits. In other words you are a liar. I suggest you plead ignorance. This at least will keep the Ice Weasels from rending your flesh. Pax vobiscum, bro!

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