[I know Tolkien wasn't English but my goodness he certainly captured the spirit of the Country in his writing.
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Not really true he wasn't English. Though he was born in South Africa, it was to English parents, and his mother brought him back here when he was about 5 years old. He spent most of his life working as an academic in Oxford.
Sorry to be a pedant, but you've hit on my specialist subject
