... to get ready for seventy-fifth anniversary of Tolkien's The Hobbit!
The book jacket of The Hobbit as I first read it. It belonged, as a matter of fact, to my wife, who bought it before she met me. It has her maiden name written on the inner cover, which is cool.
Things are snowed under at the homely office at present, but couldn't let the day go by without some acknowledgement. This calls for some Navy Flake in the old Churchwarden!
(That's pipe-smoking talk. Navy Flake is supposed to be pretty much the same kind of tobacco Tolkien smoked, and "churchwarden" is the style of pipe with the long stem everyone seems to smoke in Middle Earth. BTW, I don't remember any huge protest about all the smoking going on in the movies... you know, the dangerous example for the young sprouts of the nation, yada, yada... are the anti-smoking puritans falling down on the job?)
You must've not been paying attention. As one of the older young sprouts, I remember there was an uproar about it. However, the strength of fandom was so great that it was squelched pretty quickly. Too bad it wasn't strong enough to preserve Glorfindel as well.
Posted by: Baron Korf | 09/22/2010 at 02:52 PM
Another tin of Former's is on my shopping list!
Posted by: John Kasaian | 09/22/2010 at 05:01 PM