137: Tolkien & Germany

Lord of the Rings Lorecast

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

I'm traveling in Germany this week, so let's discuss the origin of Tolkien's name, his time in World War 1, and his wonderful response to German publishers in 1938 when asked to prove his ancestry.

Sources:

http://www.elendilion.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TolkienAncestry.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_family

https://greatwar.nl/frames/default-tolkiene.html

https://lithub.com/on-the-time-j-r-r-tolkien-refused-to-work-with-nazi-leaning-publishers/

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0:00.0	So this week, I decided to do something a little bit different.
0:05.3	I'm outside.
0:07.3	I have my little portable microphone with me.
0:11.5	And you probably figured out by now that on the previous episodes that I've done,
0:17.5	when I've mentioned things like, I'm walking through the caves for those
0:21.8	kind of, this sound effects.
0:23.0	I wasn't actually in a cave.
0:24.4	I live in Florida.
0:25.4	Finding caves is pretty hard to do.
0:27.5	But, honest to goodness, 100%, I am walking around outside.
0:33.6	I don't know if you can hear my footsteps.
0:36.2	I am in Germany.
0:38.3	I joined my wife on a trip.
0:40.3	She has a work trip.
0:42.3	And I am walking around a monastery on an island, which is kind of an interesting place to be.
0:52.3	And before I get into all the details, I obviously am not
0:56.2	continuing the analysis of the Hobbit this week because I thought this was an
1:00.9	opportunity to do something a little bit different. I'm going to be discussing
1:04.2	Tolkien and everything I can come up with about Germany. As most of you know, he's spent some time in World War I.
1:13.9	We can discuss a little bit about that.
1:16.1	But I found some details about the history of his name, where his name came from, which may have some German roots.
1:23.8	And I think more interestingly, when he tried to get the Hobbit published in Germany in 1938,
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