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   From: john@jones5011.fsnet.co.uk   
      
   "Stan Brown"  wrote in message   
   news:MPG.1a60f53dc0a2ca9c98bb40@news.odyssey.net...   
   > 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.   
   >   
   The Literary Establishment is still very stuffy about Tolkien; they were   
   probably a lot worse 40 years ago (as they were not with Wodehouse).  Mind   
   you, if he was still alive, the government would probably see political   
   capital in knighting him now.   
      
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