Tolkien and GCHQ

This blog started with some short stories inspired by the writing of J. R. R. Tolkien and so it is fitting that it ends with a word about the master as well. This week, The Daily Telegraph reported that Tolkien trained as a spy just before World War II.

Tolkien, one of his generation's most respected linguists, was ''earmarked'' to crack Nazi codes in the event that Germany declared war.

Intelligence chiefs singled him and a 'cadre' of other intellectuals to work at Bletchley Park, the codebreaking centre in Buckinghamshire.

The full story can be read here.

Thank you for reading Cally's Kitchen. It has been enjoyable writing the blog but I am stopping now to move on to other things.

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