Tolkien Trivia
27-29 March 1939
Tolkien was in London for three days code and cipher training. He was
at that time a professor at Oxford and was one of the hand picked
individuals who the Government Code and Cypher School hoped might be
suitable to in the organization in the event of war.
He is reported to
have been "keen" to take part in such work but he was not
selected.
The GCHQ website
says that the reason for this is not known but the GCHQ puzzle book
states that at the time the service was looking for mathematicians
rather than linguists.
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