John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day in 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Here’s a recording of an interview from the 1960s. I think you can identify the slight slur in his speech, caused by an early tongue injury. By all accounts, it did not affect his lecturing voice, but it did make him hard to understand, sometimes, in conversation.
Those are some fast-moving questions. I love his voice.
Oh, there were complaints about Tolkien’s lecturing, notably by satirical novelist Kingsley Amis.