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“It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Context

1964 BBC Interview with Denys Gueroult, first broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme "Now Read On" (January 1971)

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Tolkien, J. R. R.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: J. R. R. Tolkien. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

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