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January 9, 2012 11:05 pm

JRR Tolkien Denied Nobel Due To Low Quality Prose


Morty writes "In 1961, C.S. Lewis nominated JRR Tolkien for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tolkien did not receive the prize. 50 years later, the archives for that year have been made available, so now we know why. Tolkien's prose was viewed as low quality."

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