"The Man Who Understands Hobbits" by Denis & Charlotte Plimmer-1968

In 1968, husband-and-wife writing team Denis and Charlotte Plimmer interviewed J.R.R. Tolkien. From that interview, they drew an article entitled "The Man Who Understands Hobbits," published in The Daily Telegraph Magazine on March 22, 1968, pages 31ff. The article was reprinted in Weekend Magazine on August 31, 1968, for distribution with Sunday newspapers in Canada.

Below are images of the original article. I have turned an oblique photograph of the cover into a straight-on image. I have also cropped and rearranged images of the text so as to fit the format of this blog. I don't know the source of these images. I don't know why page one is pink. And I don't know who made the annotations. I hope that you find it readable, and beyond that, interesting. I find it interesting that a contributor to Weird Tales also interviewed one of the giants of twentieth-century fantasy. You can fairly say without taking anything away from them that the Plimmers immortalized themselves by interviewing Tolkien. Finally, I don't make any claims as to rights to or ownership of this interview and article nor to the photographs on the cover and contained within (these done by Graham Finleyson). I publish these images based on the doctrine of fair use, for educational and informational purposes only, and I do not profit monetarily from that publication or from this blog.

Original text copyright 2022 Terence E. Hanley