I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones... - J. R. R. Tolkien

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I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones...

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About J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3 1892 – September 2 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, most famous for his classic high fantasy works.

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Pen Names: Oxymore
Native Name: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Alternative Names: J-R-R Tolkien Tolkien John Tolkien J.R.R Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien John R. R. Tolkien
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Most important, perhaps, after Gothic was the discovery in Exeter College library, when I was supposed to be reading for Honour Mods, of a Finnish Grammar. It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me; and I gave up the attempt to invent an 'unrecorded' Germanic language, and my 'own language' – or series of invented languages – became heavily Finnicized in phonetic pattern and structure. That is of course long past now. ...

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