Today's break from the ongoing everything. From the BBC - Books, letters and notes documenting the "unlikely" friendship between writer JRR Tolkien and his profoundly deaf fan are going under the hammer. "She kept talking to my mother about these amazing books that she was reading and she had lots of questions," Dutfield said. "My mother, who wasn't interested in them at all, said 'Why don't you write to the author?' - so that's how that started." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3x83nnggwo