> detest French cooking > Tolkien bemoaned “the medieval take-over of the English language by Norman French”. Unsure of Orwell's feelings, but Humphrey Carpen

> detest French cooking > Tolkien bemoaned “the medieval take-over of the English language by Norman French”. Unsure of Orwell's feelings, but Humphrey Carpenter wrote that Tolkien suffered from Gallophobia (the root is Gaul), a hatred of all things French.