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Episode 57: On Fairy Stories by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Tollcin's Interest Is in the Folklore and the Real Not in the Made Up Little Fairy

Tolkin Muller was one of the people who helped create the oxford english dictionary. His interest is always going to be in folklore and the real not in the made up little fairy. So you can almost feel him sort of offended at the idea of cuty little fairies when won. He has in mind the elves of middle earth, just like when he and louis went to see snow white,. When it came out, no, it's crak lhat stor cracks him. And he was so upset at the way the dwarfs perpetrate as you can imagine. I mean, think about the dwarfs and lords of the rings. Think about disney's dwarfs

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