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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 15:50:59 -0500, Stan Brown    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Wasn't Mick Jagger knighted?   
      
      
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