J. R. R. Tokingen, we're talking about him today with Timothy Gordon and the concept of true myth and literature.

Timothy, you like J.R. Toking?

A little bit. You like a little bit.. Tolkien? A little bit.

You like a little bit. Here's, I'm going to put you on the spot right at the beginning.

We all say J.R. Tolkien.

Do you know what J.R. stands for?

Do you know his name?

Yeah. Yeah. James Ronald Roll token.

Are we almost?

I missed the first name. The first name you got. It's it's almost. Try another J1 Joseph Ronald rule John John John John Ronald rule talking

Trivialand we're always trying to bust people on the ours. So I forgot, yeah, yeah, you like, oh, the J is a gimmy. Yeah, the J is a gimmy. I thought it was a gimmy. Yeah, it is John. It's John Ronald Ruhl, Tolkien, and he is the man.

He is born in 1892.

I believe his mother was from Dutch ancestry and I believe he was baptized as

reformed Dutch reformed later entered the Catholic Church.

Did I get that right?

Yeah, I think that's right.

So, I mean, he's a master storyteller.

He didn't, he didn't write a lot what he wrote we know we have

the Hobbit we have Lord of the Rings some short stories am I missing anything on that

is similarly and is a is a kind of collection of,

it's pieced together, it's kind of an assemblage of early, early

middle earth tales that are relevant in one way or another, but it's more...

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