I OWE IT ALL TO TOLKIEN *
SFF history being made…
*Note spelling
I owe it all to Tolkien (and PLEASE spell this name
correctly. It’s not difficult. Nor is it
‘Tolkein’).
I’d been reading SF and Fantasy regularly since I was 14, in 1967. I read THE LORD OF THE RINGS in 1971 (I’d never read THE HOBBIT as a child). It changed my life. Because I am an obsessive. So I grabbed every book I could find by and about JRR Tolkien. Including the Coles Notes, which mentioned a Tolkien Society in the USA. I wrote to Tolkien’s publishers, Allen & Unwin, to ask if there was a Tolkien Society in the UK. There was. I joined.
From there I went to parties with other members of the society and found out about the monthly London SF Meeting – then at the Globe pub in Hatton Garden on the first Thursday of the month. I first attended in November…
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