Tolkien: on whether or not he was “Aryan”
Scot McKnight posted this response written by Tolkien to Hitler’s administration on the occasion of them asking him if he were Aryan: 25 July 1938 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford Dear Sirs, Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; …