When my father met Gandalf: Tolkien’s time as an external examiner at UCG
“So there I was, staring at my computer screen having just typed the words Chapter Six, when it occurred to me that the sensible thing to do was to log on to Twitter. I believe it’s called displacement activity. It appears to happen when I’m working on a novel …” (more)
[Felicity Hayes McCoy, Irish Times, 11 June]
Tags: JRR Tolkien, NUIG