Professor Tolkien Sets Hitler's Germany Firmly in Its Place

[alfreda89]

Thanks to Deborah J Ross for discovering Professor Tolkien's pithy response skewering his new German publisher's request for proof of his Aryan descent. This was 1938 speak for "Please tell us you are not a Jew."

Indeed, a letter worthy of a wider audience.

Comments

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

I found the link through suricattus.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Meerkats have good sources!