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A couple of times (most recently here) I have come across a rather lurid description of Tolkien starting a lecture costumed and armed as an Anglo-Saxon warrior. I assume this is an exaggerated reading of Carpenter's account as mentioned in the article, where Tolkien is compared (in manner, not dress) to an A-S bard. Did Tolkien ever do cosplay? -- Verbarson talkedits16:10, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've never heard such a thing. Sounds like an embellishment of the Carpenter biography but I'm not sure where my copy is right now. Another current trend is to paint Tolkien as a fascist, citing posthumous biographies of (in my opinion) questionable value from the 1990s onward. Michael Martinez (talk) 16:35, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
He wore his normal clothes, and astonished the students by declaiming the start of Beowulf. He didn't dress up, wave a sword, play the harp, or sing to it for that matter. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:40, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I noticed that in the "Final Years" section, {{inflation}} (and related templates) are used to provide an inflated value of his estate. The inflation function used, however, is "UK" rather than "UK-GDP". Per the template documentation for the inflation template, because the basic "UK" function uses CPI/RPI values, that function shouldn't be used for larger numbers (it tends to overstate the actual value). Consequently, the parenthetical beginning with "equivalent to..." should replace the "UK" with "UK-GDP" in all three inflation-related templates. See Template:Inflation/doc for more information. 199.66.69.23 (talk) 21:47, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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J.R.R Tolkien - his death location is Bournemouth, Dorset, England. Not Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. Bournemouth is not in Hampshire. 86.16.42.48 (talk) 00:45, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I found no reference in the footnote for neither rheumatic fever or hemorrhage. Here is a paper that claims cause of death as typhoid with intestinal perforation and peritonitis.
TOLKNIĘTY: Arthur Reuel Tolkien | death notice, testament, etc. (1896) 46.182.188.199 (talk) 02:26, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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In the biography, under his childhood, it states that "(Tolkien) thought Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was "amusing but disturbing". using J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography as a source. This is not the case, in fact, on page 28, the author tells how Tolkien was "amused by Alice in Wonderland, though he had no desire to have adventures like Alice." I do not believe that having no desire to have similar adventures are the same as finding a story amusing but disturbing. Somemineral (talk) 23:37, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ⸺(Random)staplers 05:33, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Done In what seems to be a clear case of WP:CITOGENESIS, this quote can be found in a number of places on the web, but all cited back to Wikipedia. PianoDan (talk) 23:53, 11 December 2024 (UTC)