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Reviewing "Tolkien," w/ Dr. Holly Ordway and Laura Schmidt

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The Missed Opportunities of Edith Brat

I had a feeling of missed bets that were much closer to biographical points of his life than some of what we saw. They really did love the word cellar door. That was one of his favorite words. I could see scenes where he's younger and he and his brother are watching the coal trains go by to and from Wales. And somebody says, oh, I never knew you loved trains so much. And he says, no, it's not the trains. It's those words. Well, again, another missed opportunity was his relationship with his mother who taught him his early languages.

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