From The Lord of the Rings Appendix A: ‘The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen’ (abridged)
Elven scholars decided to romanticise the first meeting of these two famous lovers (as they did with everything). For poetic reasons they decided to also leave out the part where Aragorn ran to his room and cried to a week out of embarrasment for announcing his noble lineage to her in an attempt to recover from his pick-up line.
(Fun fact: this is how my parents met too)
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When George handed Tolkien the tape recorder, his skepticism towards it as a machine was deeply rooted in his personality. Because the machine could record and play back a human voice, Tolkien joked around that the tape recorder was possessed. That was why he began a recording session with exorcizing any demons living inside the machine. He did this by recording himself reciting the Lord’s Prayer.
But Tolkien didn’t recite the Lord’s Prayer in English. Neither did he recite it in Latin, which would have been expected considering that he was a devout Catholic. No, Tolkien being Tolkien, he recited the Lord’s Prayer in Gothic.
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