According to A.N Wilson, Hugo Dyson used to sit in the corner during Tolkien's readings saying 'Oh fuck, not another elf.'

[by Andrew Rilstone. You may remember Rilstone from editing Interactive Fantasy, which published the Greg Costikyan essay, “I Have No Words & I Must Design,” if you happened to read one of the two or three issues that came out; I have the second, which contains the aforementioned essay. What is a game, anyway? This has been famously hard to define, resisting the Aristotelian genus-species approach, at least according to Ludwig Wittgenstein. Greg has a go at it, though, and produces an interesting definition, one which he chisels out in order to help in the task of analysis of games, the point of which is to create better ones.

One would like to create an etymology of Ludwig/Ludovico that has to do with games, say, ludo-vico, game-winner or something silly like that. Alas, it is not to be. I think it emerges from Chlodwig or Hlodwig, and thus is cognate with Clovis the first among the Franks that invaded Gallia, and related through it to Louis. But Chlodwig means famous/loud/glorious warrior or something of the sort, which is an altogether different game.]
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“How are you going to convince somebody when you don’t like him?”
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