Tim O'Neill - History for Atheists

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History writer, medievalist, blogger, atheist, sceptic and expatriate Tasmanian. http://linktr.ee/timoneill

Relevant quotes from the BBC interview.
Picture of the three types of ancestral hobbits: a Stoor, a Fallohide and a Harfoot.
Cover of Mark Riebling's book *Church of Spies*.
Screenshot of Ben Macintyre's account of the SAS capture of Augusta.
Screenshot from *Rogue Heroes* of SAS raiders burning a Nazi flag in a Sicilian church.
That’s not a Tolkien quote, it’s from the screenplay for one of the Hobbit movies.
Quote from Finocchario's book.
Dolphin logo from the frontispiece of the *Dialogue*.
“Some alleged quotes you find attributed to me on social media are fake and are actually taken from a screenplay for a bloated three part movie adaptation of my book for small children, and so are trite paraphrases of things I expressed more eloquently, but are taken as profound wisdom by utter midwits. And this really shits me.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“Some alleged quotes you find attributed to me on social media are fake and are actually taken from a screenplay for a bloated three part movie adaptation of my book for small children, and so are trite paraphrases of things I expressed more eloquently, but are taken as profound wisdom by utter midwits. And this really shits me.” J.R.R. Tolkien
Screenshot of the OP blocking me for questioning the idea Xmas trees are pagan/witchcraft.
Photo of a hillside in Tasmania with a view over the Don River Valley.
List of claims about the Middle Ages