The recording was made in June 1994 by Christopher Carrie, a Birmingham man who told the IICSA that John Tolkien sexually assaulted him twice in 1956. If you wake up with your pyjamas off and they were on when you went to sleep you would wonder, wouldn’t you?” Well, let’s say things had gone on in the night. More often than not, it would be … well, I don’t intend to name names, just to say that this particular person who I loved dearly, not in a sexual way, you understand, this person would be fast asleep, huddled up next to me when I woke in the morning. I often awoke in the morning to find someone sharing my bed. Often, people would stay the night at our house …. Almost without exception, his colleagues were academics and, you know, some of them were pretty strange fellows …. When the priest was asked if he had been abused himself as a child, he said: “When I was a boy I was constantly surrounded by my father and colleagues of my father. His friends included CS Lewis, a fellow academic and author of the Narnia novels, and among his students was the poet WH Auden. At the time, JRR Tolkien was professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College. In a tape-recording made by one of the priest’s chief accusers and heard by the Observer, a man said to be him is heard discussing his childhood during the 1920s. Now it has emerged that the cleric said that he himself was abused as a boy, and that he was assaulted in the family home by at least one of his father’s learned Oxford friends.
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