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J.R.R. Tolkien's No Nonsense Reply to the Nazis"I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler... Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making forever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light." -J.R.R. Tolkien to his son.
According to the report, a book titled "The Master Plan" by historian Heather Pringle, revealed a deep interest by the Nazis in Tolkien's academic work on old Germanic culture. Writing for LifeSiteNews, Jonathon Van Maren notes that a German publisher who was planning a German translation release of "The Hobbit," wrote to the famed English author in 1938, asking about his heritage in an attempt to portray him as "Aryan."
I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject—which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride. Read the full article, and Tolkien's entire letter to the German publisher by clicking HERE. 
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Being a J.R.R. Tolkien fan, an article on LifeSiteNews.com recently caught my eye regarding some decades-old correspondence between Tolkien and a Nazi-influenced publishing company.
An excerpt of Tolkien's reply (below) on July 25th, 1938, exposes Tolkien's disdain for the Nazi's "obsession with German heritage"…
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