Tolkien died in 1973 but the show aired in the UK a few years before that. Since there was so little choice on the tv in those days, he surely saw it. Is there any record of his opinion?
What did JRR Tolkien think of the Mary Tyler Moore Show?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 22, 2021 7:32 AM |
He loved it so much he would pretend he was Mary Richards, and would walk through the streets of Oxford pretending it was Minneapolis and throwing his beret up into the air.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 22, 2021 6:00 AM |
He hated spunk!
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 22, 2021 6:03 AM |
He told me that he thought Mary was a whore.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 22, 2021 6:04 AM |
Murray and Phyllis
Merry and Pippin
COINCIDENCE?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 22, 2021 6:17 AM |
R1 is inaccurate as Tolkien was no longer at Oxford in the 70s
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 22, 2021 6:20 AM |
He looked at Mary Tyler Moore and wondered if she could be ‘Galadriel’ in the movie version of his novels.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 22, 2021 7:32 AM |