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MCLSSAA2@... wrote:
> Someone mentioned Aryans, and the matter is getting flamy.
> This reminds of an incident when Tolkien wanted to publish a book in
> Germany in the 1930's. Someone in Germany wrote to him:-
> > ... Are you Aryan? ...
> and Tolkien answered:-
> > ... I am not Aryan, that is to say, Indo-Iranian, ...
> and to me that seems to settle the matter.
It was 1938 and some German publisher wanted to bring out a translation
of The Hobbit. In his response Tolkien went on to say that, as far as
he knew, he had no Gypsy ancestors:-) It's all in the Letters of JRR
Tolkien. Actually, he wrote two responses and the letter in the book is
the one that was not sent. There's apparently no record of the other,
so it's impossible to say how much of the Professor's considerable
disdain was in fact transmitted.
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-- Julianus
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I are wandering blindfolded through a myth devised by a maniac.
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