He was known to begin classes by barging into the lecture hall, sometimes in era-appropriate chain mail armor, and bellowing the opening lines of Beowulf at the top of his lungs. As one of his students put it, “He could turn a lecture room into a mead hall.

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#jesus christ i love this man  #my cousin is friends with someone who had tolkien as a professor  #FOREVER JEALOUS  
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