Timeline for Was Tolkien a driver?
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| Sep 20, 2016 at 9:45 | comment | added | Valorum | @hack-r - According to his biography he most certainly rode a bicycle, especially during the war when petrol was closely rationed and when he was working at Oxford as a professor. He met/wooed his future wife while on bike rides to Church. History doesn't record if he roller-skated. | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 3:39 | comment | added | Molag Bal | @Hack-R More importantly, did he ever ride a fell beast? | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 2:45 | comment | added | Hack-R | Next question -- did he ever bicycle or roller skate? | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 19:37 | comment | added | Valorum | @void_ptr - Hence Gandalf's admonition, "Fly, you fools!" | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 19:28 | comment | added | void_ptr | @Valorum - "...a long train journey taking less than 12 hours" - or you could fly. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 18:09 | comment | added | Gorchestopher H | I'm not sure the mode of transportation was without carriage simply for reasons that "Tolkien didn't like cars". In the 30's he actually had a car for a while, which would mean he likes cars better than most folks of the era. Discrete carriage travel would be severely poor over unkempt terrain, especially anything remotely forested, mountainous, or flooded. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 17:48 | comment | added | Valorum | @amaranth - Fandom questions (including questions about authors) are also explicitly allowed by the site's rules on topicality. Those voting to close may wish to take that into account. Personally, I think that both his eccentricity and love for Oxford are likely to be of genuine interest to a fan of his works. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 17:36 | comment | added | Molag Bal | ^ OK, there is a bit of relevant insight into the story, which makes this look less like silly trivia. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 17:29 | comment | added | Valorum | @Cascabel - Indeed. The distance from Mordor to Hobbiton was scarcely 500 miles, but sufficient to fill three books with walking. Nowadays that would be a long train journey taking less than 12 hours. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 17:06 | comment | added | Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ | I think probably a lot of people who have grown up accustomed to good highways, SUVs, and mass-transit wouldn't understand how much this aspect could affect the writer's spatial and temporal concepts. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 16:10 | history | edited | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2016 at 16:04 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |