J. R. R. Tolkien/Awesome


 * After a German publisher wrote to ask in so many words if he was Jewish, Tolkien replied that he wasn't...to his regret, as he felt that they were an ancient and noble people.
 * This after presenting a brief, not-so-subtle deconstruction of the entire idea of an "Aryan" race.
 * His Take That to all the people insisting that LOTR is an allegory for World War II, detailing how he would have written it if that had been the case.