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"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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JRR Tolkien: 'I Never Expected a Money Success'
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday October 29 2015, @02:58PM
Move the worlds reserve currency/oil currency from dollars to euros, or yuan, or groats, coupled with a USA that has a military competitor at least in regional theatres (China + guerrilla/terrorism), and the rest of the world ignoring US IP rights, and you're really screwed.
Like it or not people that proposed things like the TPP, or invaded Iraq, also acknowledge this, and are trying to stave this day off.