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Wow, I had not realised the extent of this!:
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noWizardme
Gondolin
Mar 6, 4:52pm
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Wow, I had not realised the extent of this!
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Tolkien, every smart person knows, was really writing about rugby, but his Evil Publisher deemed the market for readers to be too small and thus invented a bunch of fantasy nonsense to broaden the mass market appeal.
I suppose the reason it is not more widely known is that most of this material comes from papers that had been sold off to a secretive collector before Christopher Tolkien had a chance to study them. And so they couldn't receive the HoMe treatment until he could arrange to borrow them for a while.
That's why the rugby stuff ends up in the seldom-read supplementary volumes, HoMe, A Loan, and HoMe, A Loan II.
Among the things I liked are that bit about Tolkien's rugby captain making various noises, such as telephone sounds, to tell the team what he wanted, but without the opposition being able to understand. Hence "one ring to rolling maul", for example.
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"I am not made for querulous pests." Frodo 'Spooner' Baggins.
(This post was edited by noWizardme on Mar 6, 5:00pm)
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