tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post7316264627729420886..comments2024-03-28T10:20:44.291-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: Tolkien at the BodleianJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-46371616083154950702010-03-04T10:44:20.070-08:002010-03-04T10:44:20.070-08:00I went today, standing in line for about an hour f...I went today, standing in line for about an hour for an approximately 5-minute look at 3 watercolors and a Hobbit 1st edition with dust jacket displayed separately. There was also a sheet of minutes from a 27 Oct 1939 Oxford English Faculty meeting. JRRT had doodled on the back various phrases, including: 'Gandalf caused a curious stir in Alfaromdor by having his whiskers curled - can you imagine anything more inept'; 'In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit, curious and egregious little person any of his friends would have told you'; 'much influenced...by the Anglosaxon bookhand'. (He seemed to be trying out his 'bookhand' script, as that last phrases is repeated several times with variations in the lettering. Best use of meeting minutes I can think of.)<br /><br />I also saw Walter Hooper and, I think, Priscilla Tolkien while waiting in line.Cole Matsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13954574912456427100noreply@blogger.com