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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: 2) by Jaruzel on Thursday October 29 2015, @08:24AM

    by Jaruzel (812) on Thursday October 29 2015, @08:24AM (#255930) Homepage Journal

    So Great Ormond Street Hospital [gosh.org] shouldn't get any money from the royalties of Peter Pan, because they didn't write it?

    Won't somebody think of the children?!

    -Jar

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