Re: CHAT: JRRT
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 8, 2004, 15:33 |
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At 05:11 7.3.2004, John Cowan wrote:
>We must also allow for T's personality: "great but dilatory and
>unmethodical", as C.S. Lewis called him.
I fear that the characterization -- with "intelligent" rather than "great" --
would hold for yours truly as well... Anyone else?
Feels good to be like the great Tolkien in something, tho! ;)
At 20:28 7.3.2004, J Y S Czhang wrote:
> My personal pet theory (Down, boy! down...) is that Tolkien was afflicted
>by OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder [and/or OCLD - Obsessive ConLang
>Disorder]). And AFAIK he did not see himself as being just quite right (a viewpoint
>which was also "religious"), but thought others were somehow more so.
You might be on to something there. There is anecdotal information on
him weeding his lawn with a pair of tweezers, nailscissors or some such
minuscule tool. Even if it was a small lawn...
/BP 8^)
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