Posted by Robert Hill on April 04, 2010 at 14:55:11 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Swallow now and then posted by John Nichols on April 04, 2010 at 10:37:11:
is there not a famous story about Tolkien reading one of his stories aloud at a meeting of writers and JP Snow? or someone of that ilk saying, Not another ...... elf story.
Some versions of the story claim it was C. S. Lewis, but others more plausibly say it was Hugo Dyson, another member of their group, the Inklings.
I've never heard of J.P. Snow. The only person I've heard of with a similar name is C.P. Snow (later Sir Charles Snow, later Lord Snow), scientist, novelist, civil servant, eventually a member of the government, and inventor of the phrases "the two cultures" and "corridors of power". I don't think he ever moved in the same circles as Tolkien and Lewis. I don't think they would have liked him. Lewis would probably have written something horrible about him, as he did about a very thinly-disguised H.G. Wells in That Hideous Strength.