Sarcasm you chumps<p>Jesus the guy wrote Silmarillion in his seventies, a book that had no chance of being a bestseller and he barely lived to finish. Tolkien didn&#x27;t write because he thought it was a &quot;sweet gig&quot;, he wrote because he was a writer.<p>There is this mindset that refuses to believe that any motivation other than money is suspect, the nerd community used to be blessedly free from it.