https://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Bill_Stickers&feed=atom&action=historyBill Stickers - Revision history2024-03-29T15:43:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.3https://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Bill_Stickers&diff=343919&oldid=prevDour1234 at 06:35, 23 March 20222022-03-23T06:35:51Z<p></p>
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</table>Dour1234https://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Bill_Stickers&diff=235368&oldid=prevMorgan: Created page with "'''Bill Stickers''' was a villain — a figure in a "long-running family epic" told by J.R.R. Tolkien to his children. The stories "revolved around the tireless efforts of Ma..."2013-11-12T01:58:35Z<p>Created page with "'''Bill Stickers''' was a villain — a figure in a "long-running family epic" told by <a href="/wiki/J.R.R._Tolkien" title="J.R.R. Tolkien">J.R.R. Tolkien</a> to his children. The stories "revolved around the tireless efforts of Ma..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Bill Stickers''' was a villain — a figure in a "long-running family epic" told by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] to his children. The stories "revolved around the tireless efforts of Major Road Ahead to prosecute the villain".<ref name=Bio>{{HM|Bio}}, Chapter 7</ref><br />
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Bill Stickers was an "irrepressible villain" and "a huge hulk of a man who always got away with everything".<ref name=Olney>{{webcite|author=Austin Olney|articleurl=http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/lotr/author.shtml|articlename=About J.R.R. Tolkien|dated=|website=[http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/ HoughtonMifflinBooks.com]|accessed=12 November 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Inspiration==<br />
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Tolkien was inspired by "signs hanging on various Oxford gates",<ref name=Bio/> saying "Bill Stickers Will Be Prosecuted".<ref name=Olney/><ref group=note>It's an old prank to paste up posters with 'Bill Stickers is Innocent' underneath these sign (cf. [http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bill-stickers-is-innocent.html Bill Stickers is innocent]).</ref> Basing his discussion on a newspaper article revealing that [[C.S. Lewis]] was a member a secret gang during the 1920s,<ref>{{webcite|author=Thomas Burrows|articleurl=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10737947.CS_Lewis_supported_secret_heritage_gang/|articlename=CS Lewis supported secret heritage gang|dated=15 October 2013|website=[http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk OxfordMail.co.uk]|accessed=12 November 2013}}</ref> [[David Bratman]] has speculated that Tolkien in addition might have been inspired by the gang member Margaret Pollard's (a friend of Lewis's) gang pseudonym, "Bill Stickers".<ref>{{webcite|author=[[David Bratman]]|articleurl=http://kalimac.livejournal.com/694167.html|articlename=ten miscellanies make a blog post|dated=5 November 2013|website=[http://kalimac.livejournal.com/ Kalimac.livejournal.com]|accessed=12 November 2013}}</ref><br />
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The stories about Bill Stickers and Major Road Ahead were only told orally (possibly around [[1926]] and [[1930]]<ref>{{CG|C}}, p. 135</ref>), and have thus not been recorded,<ref>{{CG|RG}}, p. 162</ref> unlike, for example, ''[[Roverandom]]'' and ''[[Letters from Father Christmas]]''.<br />
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