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Tolkien Was Turned Down by Nobel Committee

January 8, 2012 by Matthew 3 Comments

JRR Tolkien, the author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, was rejected by the Nobel Prize committee for poor storytelling and bad writing.

I’m with history on this one, but am actually surprised that he got far enough in the process to warrant a rejection.

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