Tolkein a drunken sot..

[carolynwhite2]

>From post 19320:

Tolkien liked to spend evenings drinking beer while singing viking
songs in their original languages, and some of his colleagues
considered him less than fully serious. After his death in 1973 one
colleague lamented the loss of "a very fine medieval scholar who
might have done so much more work of lasting value."


Carolyn
still in snippet mode...and trying to remember the Philosopher's 
drinking song..come on Barry, help me out, something about Descartes 
being a drunken fart and Aristotle a bugger for the bottle...

Apologies etc for lowering the tone..