A long time ago I was working at an observatory searching for new asteroids. For cloudy nights, they had a large library of paperbacks and I read LOTR twice thr

A long time ago I was working at an observatory searching for new asteroids. For cloudy nights, they had a large library of paperbacks and I read LOTR twice through. Because of this, when I got to name a newly discovered asteroid, I wanted to call it Tolkien. I wrote to the publisher and got a wonderful short letter back from Rayner Unwin, who talked to Christopher Tolkien about it - here is the letter: https://imgur.com/a/XDGwOl6 https://imgur.com/a/XDGwOl6?