Tuned into Radio 4 this morning and heard someone interviewing Juliane Diller/Koepcke, who has an incredibly hypnotic voice ( Read more... )

Angua, I just found this at a comm called weirdjews. I think I like it.

Although it might seem unlikely that anyone would wonder whether the author of The Lord of the Rings was Jewish, the Nazis took no chances. When the publishing firm of Ruetten & Loening was negotiating with J. R. R. Tolkien over a German translation of The Hobbit in 1938, they demanded ( Read more... )