Din wrote: ??? Forgive my interuption, but Tolkien wasn't
english, he was a white south african. <<
This is news to me! Everything I've ever read talks about his growing up in Birmingham (UK), moreover he lived and died in the UK - where do you get this information from?
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--- In mepbmlist@y..., "Matthew Riley" <matthew@m...> wrote:
>>Din wrote: ??? Forgive my interuption, but Tolkien wasn't
english, he was a white south african. <<This is news to me! Everything I've ever read talks about his
growing up in Birmingham (UK), moreover he lived and died in the
UK - where do you get this information from?
He grew up in the UK, but was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa,
moving to the UK when he was 4, after his father died.
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/index.html
is a great page to start with, espesially the biography pages 
Oystein