Silver Tongue
Tolkien’s lesser-known nickname

honestlygarbage:

all-things-devours:

According to a letter Tolkien wrote in 1971, his school-friends “used to write his initials as ‘JR2T’ and pronounce them ‘to rhyme with dirt’.

you: jolkein rolkein rolkein tolkein

me, an intellectual: jirt

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