Tolkien Corrects Gandalf Pronunciation

Tolkien comes back and says “It’s pronounced Jandalf” then promptly dies again.

A humorous illustration shows J.R.R. Tolkien smoking a pipe, with a caption imagining him returning from the dead to correct the pronunciation of “Gandalf” to “Jandalf,” then dying again. The joke plays on an absurd fake pronunciation correction and Tolkien’s death as a reaction to the supposed mispronunciation. EN: A humorous illustration shows J.R.R. Tolkien smoking a pipe, with a caption imagining him returning from the dead to correct the pronunciation of “Gandalf” to “Jandalf,” then dying again. The joke plays on an absurd fake pronunciation correction and Tolkien’s death as a reaction to the supposed mispronunciation.

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