Lots of important research is being done by people with PhDs in fantasy literature!

I think they might have to!

Thanks! Hope you like it!

It's pretty good quality, I think. Definitely don't judge it by the recording of my talk as Tolkien was played through a speaker in the room which was then picked up on the laptop microphone and compressed massively!

Yes, I've heard those recordings before but I didn't have time to talk about them in my paper. But it is really useful to have a recording of a young Tolkien to compare to the older Tolkien. His delivery does sound better in the 20s than it does in the 50s.

I think Max Wilkinson did well to get Matthew Pennycook to agree to working with him to achieve the goals of the bill... but yes, it does feel a bit like they just stole the idea so they could take credit! Politics.

It was my first time, which isn't too bad for about 20 years of having this email account!

Deleting 1,500 unread emails felt good (I'm 99% sure they were all things that weren't important and therefore I hadn't opened)

It was stunning... Same clouds from Oxford Parkway!