[Parution] Tolkien Créateur de la Terre du Milieu - Expo Bodleian 2018 + Catalogue

[Druss]

Je copie ici une transcription du document p. 245 du Créateur/Maker, College of Cretaceous Perambulators. Comme le catalogue l'indique, c'est une feuille appartenant à Owen Barfield, mais écrite par Tolkien, dans laquelle on trouve des références à Barfield, mais également au Hobbit.

College of Cretaceous Perambulators
Re-entrance Examination
April 1938

No more than 14 questions should be answered

1 Comment on the following
(1) It is no good setting them that, they would know it
(2) 'The poet sat in the third and laughed'
(3) 'Ten twenty thirty you're so very dirty'
(4) 'The armada can wait but my bowels can't'
(5) παντα σφαιρει ('everything on earth')
(6) Felix qui portuit felis cognoscere caudam ('happy is he who has
been able to know a cat's tail')

2 What are the five principle weaknesses of the 'Orpheus'?

3 Discuss the orchestral uses and abuses of the Viol de Gambons, the
Silver Trumpet, the Cor Anglais and the Cuckold's Horn

4 Distinguish between (a) Thursday and Friday (b) the man who was
Thursday and Man Friday © Basingstoke and Alton (d) Coming on a
walking tour and directing it (e) gibbets and Hobbits

5 Where do you get off?

6 Compare Poetic Diction.

7 Define a cone. See question (11)

8 On a given Field either
(a) Erect a perpendicular edifice subtending at the extremities of the
Field angles whose sum is equal to half the erection.
or
(b) Exterminate all pests
( c) Conjugate the principle parts

9 'In acute cases of Differential Calculus Stone Ginger has been found
a Sovereign Remedy' - T Brown. Discuss

10 Who were Owen Glendower, Owen Nares, Robert Owen, Owen
Moore, Owen Barfield, Vale Owen, Owain, Ywain, Rowena, Bowen,
Rowin', Sowin', Hoein', Growin', Knowin', and Glóin

11 And stuff it up.

12 Estimate, compare, distinguish, discuss and trace to its principle
sources Everything.

* Dinner will be served for the candidates when the examiners are
satisfied.