XPost: rec.arts.books.childrens, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
      
   On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 18:18:55 -0000, "Alan Reynolds"   
    wrote:   
      
   >C S Lewis was not awarded a CBE, but Tolkien was, in 1972.  The award does   
   >not make its recipient a knight, but a  Commander of the British Empire.   
      
   Can you clarify which part of the British Empire Tolkien commanded and   
   what he commanded it to do :)   
      
      
      
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