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The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit creator JRR Tolkien

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

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Tolkien's One Lady

Not a single one that appears on stage as it were. Tolkien obviously refers second-hand to a few mothers and wives, but they never speak or act. They're only there to birth the men in the pluperfect, had existed tense. How do you write a book without one? Not even a game. It's all my own puzzle. Even in Jurassic Park, they're trying to get gender. Nature finds a way. You've got to be full of goblins and not one woman. Like even in an in-sail. Not one gauntlet. That's crazy. I think if you're a lecturer in philology at Oxford in the 30s, you don't

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