My favorite part of this letter is where Tolkien pretends to not understand what the Germans mean by "Aryan", and initially answers as if they are referring to

My favorite part of this letter is where Tolkien pretends to not understand what the Germans mean by "Aryan", and initially answers as if they are referring to what we now call the Indo-Iranian language family[1]. Obviously he knows quite well what they really are asking, as the rest of his letter makes clear. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Iranian_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Iranian_languages