Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses ….

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) English writer, fabulist, philologist, academic [John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]
Letter to Christopher Tolkien (1943-11-29)
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Letter 52 in Humphrey Carpenter, ed., The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981).

 
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