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By MARJORIE BURNS By JRR Tolkien JRR Tolkien (1892-1973), famous for “Lord of the Rings,” was an Oxford philologist whose expertise in Old Germanic languages included Old Norse (the language spoken by the settlers of Iceland) and Old English (also ...
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