Another anniversary...

A bit of useless Tolkien ''trivia'' here: on this day (30th October) 90 years ago, J.R.R Tolkien received his Master of Arts degree in a Congregation. It may surprise readers, but Tolkien never in his life wrote a thesis for the purpose of earning a DPhil. I like to think that this was because he spent a great deal of his life writing theses and essays at doctoral level on complex philological stuff! He was, of course, awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters (the second highest after the prestigious Doctor of Divinity) by the University of Oxford in 1972 for his vast scholarly contribution to English language and literature.