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by xref 913 days ago
He’s probably happy resting on his laurels and cashing the checks.
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/me can't tell if this is parody.

As, apparently, nor can this fanfic writer, with their parody of a pen-name.

Just for a laugh: JRRT would be 131 if he were still alive. He published 45 books; he wasn't slacking.

His son Christopher, whom I met once, spent his whole adult life editing together his late father's works, and would have been 100 next year... and he nearly made it.