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   From: john@jones5011.fsnet.co.uk   
      
   "Stan Brown"  wrote in message   
   news:MPG.1a5e7a3d4da89c1198baf8@news.odyssey.net...   
   > In article <3ff40c25.83042970@news.saix.net> in   
   > rec.arts.books.tolkien, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > >On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:06:41 +0000, Jane Lumley   
      
   > >wrote:   
   > >>I see Philip Pullman has accepted a CBE.   
   >   
   > >Interesting - was such an honour ever offered to authors children's books   
   of   
   > >more monarchist leanings, like C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien?   
   > >And if so, did they accept?   
   >   
   > I don't know about Lewis, but Tolkien received a CBE in 1972. He   
   > writes about it in Letter 334: "I was very deeply moved by my brief   
   > meeting with the Queen, & our few words together. Quite unlike   
   > anything that I had expected."   
   >   
   > >Would it have made them "sirs"?   
   >   
   > No. Only the top grade of most orders (top two grades of some) count   
   > as Knights. Tolkien was entitled to use the letters "CBE" after his   
   > name, but he was still Mr Tolkien.   
   >   
   And one suspects that, as the senior professor at Oxford, Tolkien could have   
   been knighted if he had published a bit more on philology and less on elves!   
      
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