B2MeM Day 29: "My Name is Tolkien, John Tolkien"

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Long-classified documents reveal that JRR Tolkien trained as a British spy. Shortly before the outreak of the Second World War, Tolkien and a number of other academics were contacted by the top-secret Government Code and Cypher School.

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With his genius for linguistics and knowledge of many languages, Tolkien was a logical choice for either translation or code-breaking. In fact, he had studied cyphers as part of his training as a signals officer during World War I.

Not surpisingly, he passed the Government Code and Cypher school's entrance exams and was offered a job. Though notes indicate that he was "keen" about the work, he did not sign on for reasons that are not known.

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Or perhaps he did enlist, but his work was so secret that it is still classified...

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