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   From: lumley@purkiss.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Stan Brown   
    writes   
   >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.   
   >   
   Most top Oxford profs don't get knighthoods - more usually a CBE.  The   
   current Goldsmiths Prof got a CBE last year.   
      
   Yes, it's the Empire bit of CBE that I think should have deterred   
   Pullman, if he has any integrity at all.  You also have to acknowledge   
   the Queen's authority to receive the thing.  I am seriously disappointed   
   in him, and shall turn a deaf ear to any further pontifications from him   
   on the state we're in.   
      
   An interesting question is why Pullman got gonged and not J K Rowling?   
   Wonder if she said no, as a loyal Scot?   
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   Jane Lumley   
      
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