Re: The young Tolkien
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 12, 2001, 5:30 |
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Boy, do I ever see myself in that. Before I found
CONLANG, those were my thoughts exactly. I still
feel embarrassed to admit to it. A huge stepping stone
has been WXXI's invitation to interview me about it,
and about CONLANG. I accepted. What have I done?
:)
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
----- Original Message -----
From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 8:24 AM
Subject: The young Tolkien
> JRRT as a twentysomething, writing to his future wife:
>
> "I often long to work at it [i.e. conlanging] and don't let myself 'cause
though
> I love it so it does seem such a mad hobby!"
> (_Letters_ #4)
>
> --
> John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
> One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
> --Douglas Hofstadter
>
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