Professor Tolkien "has a nose for an elf"
J. R. R. Tolkien's novel was published on this day 72 years ago and, apart from during wartime paper rationing, has never been out of print since. The first print run of 1,500 copies sold out in a couple of months. The Times said:
in this book a number of good things, never before united, have come together; a fund of humour, an understanding of children, and a happy fusion of the scholar's with the poet's grasp of mythology.
On the edge of a valley one of Professor Tolkien's characters can pause and say: "It smells like elves." It may be years before we produce another author with such a nose for an elf.
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