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   Stan Brown to John Jones   
   Re: Pullman's CBE   
   03 Jan 04 15:50:59   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.childrens, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   In article  in   
   rec.arts.books.tolkien, John Jones wrote:   
   >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!   
      
   Why? P.G. Wodehouse was knighted. It's hard to see why Tolkien was   
   not, unless perhaps the government were waiting to see whether his   
   work was just a fad.   
      
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