/lit/ - Literature

IN THIS THREAD: AUTHORS KICKING ASS

To Tolkien's outrage, he was asked beforehand whether he was of Aryan origin. In a letter to his British publisher Stanley Unwin, he condemned Nazi "race-doctrine" and anti-Semitism as "wholly pernicious and unscientific". He added that he had many Jewish friends and was considering, "letting a German translation go hang".[115] He provided two letters to Rütten & Loening and instructed Unwin to send whichever he preferred. The more tactful letter was sent and was lost during the later bombing of Germany. In the unsent letter, Tolkien makes the point that "Aryan" is a linguistic term, denoting speakers of Indo-Iranian languages. He continued,
But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject—which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.[116]

PICTURE RELATED: MY FACE WHEN EVERYONE ON /LIT/ IS ARGUING WHEN WE SHOULD BE FRIENDS READING.

IT WAS FUNNY, WHEN I WAS IN TOKYO (ASAKUSA IN THIS PHOTO), ALL THESE HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WANTED TO TAKE PHOTOS WITH ME. AS YOU CAN TELL BY THIS PHOTO, I DID NOT WANT. BUT MY FRIEND WAS SO EXCITED.

HE'S REALLY INTO JAPANESE GIRLS, BUT CAN'T REALLY PULL THEM. I WAS MORE INTERESTED IN JUST TALKING TO EVERYONE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR GENDER OR AGE.

>>901804
Acrueid, I'm from the Gold Coast. Capital of the Japanese in Australia. Why would I spend money to GO to Japan, when there are more than enough here already?

I'm not even really attracted to Japanese girls so much.

Picture related. Not even happy girls were coming to take photos with me. (Tokyo again)