Dec 27, 2009
During the summer of 1938, in anticipation of the projected publication of a German translation of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien was asked by the German publisher to provide a declaration that he was of arisch (aryan) heritage. Tolkien was annoyed by the request. He wrote to Allen & Unwin, his English publisher—which was acting as intermediary—that he was “inclined to refuse,” and he noted that he “would regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine.” In deference to...
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