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Ent said:
Maybe I can snitch it for the banner on the site?
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Go ahead! I give thee leave to do so. They're the Tsitsikamma mountains, which the Portuguese originally named Serra das Estrelas, or the Mountains of the Stars (which I prefer to Tsitsikamma), in the 1500s.
 
Tolkien got his own category in Double Jeopardy today ("Talking About Tolkien"). Only one contestant chose from the category. I don't remember all the clues, but one of the responses was "Who are the Inklings?" in response to a clue about the group Tolkien's discussion group. Another was "What is Ronald" in response to a clue about which 'R' Tolkien was called in his family, which nobody answered correctly; one answered 'Reuel'; another answered 'Robert'.
 
Here are the clues for "Talking About Tolkien" (listing incorrect responses only on the assumption that everyone here knows what the correct ones are):

$400
From 1925 to 1959 J.R.R. Tolkien was a popular language & literature professor at this university

$800
Tolkien's son Michael once listed his father's occupation as this, also Gandalf's job

$1200
In "The Hobbit" he thinks of picnics below during his trip over the Misty Mountains, inspired by one Tolkien took to Switzerland

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To his family & close friends, Tolkien was known by this name, the first "R" in his initials
(Answered incorrectly: see previous post)

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Humphrey Carpenter's bio of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis & like-minded friends has this title, like their literary circle
(Answered incorrectly: "What is the Oxford Group")
 
While channel-surfing I happened to catch a snippet of a program on EWTN called "Great Books Every Catholic Should Know" in which the host was discussing The Lord of the Rings. That red button actually reveals less information 😆



Couldn't find it on YouTube but here's a lecture about LoR by the host of the program, Joseph Pearce, in case anyone's interested.
 
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