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Joe Hackett

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I can take or leave LOTR, The Silmarillion, what have you, but if he wrote nothing other than the postscript to this invitation card, J.R.R. Tolkien would have a secure place in history.
invitation card, text as follows:

20 Northmoor Road, Oxford.

Professor and Mrs. Tolkien

request the pleasure of your company
on Wednesday, November 21st, 1945,

to assist them in celebrating 

the coming of age of their son
Sub-Lieutenant C.J.R. Tolkien, Royal Navy Reserve

6:30 PM onwards
RSVP if not coming

postscript:
- carriages at midnight
- ambulances at 2 AM
- wheelbarrows at 5 AM
- hearses at daybreak
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