The unlikeliest confluence of FC Barcelona with JRR Tolkien’s works of high fantasy. Join us, as we throw light upon the beauty of sheer “pedantry” and legacy.
In the summer of 1930, somewhere in North Oxford in the United Kingdom, a 40-year-old Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was wrecking his nerves over a stack of examination papers when he penned, on the back of one of those bothersome documents, one of the most popular sentences in English literature:
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
Meanwhile, more than fifteen-hundred kilometers away from Oxford, in the Catalan city of Barcelona, a football club was standing at the threshold of a socio-political turmoil brewing within their region.