Note on a Personal Acquaintance with Tolkien

In this short note, writer Geoffrey G. Attard seeks to describe the relationship that the later Maltese professor of Philosophy and one time rector of the island’s only university had with renowned Inkling author J.R.R. Tolkien while studying in Oxford. By quoting from Professor Serracino-Inglott’s personal writings as quoted in Daniel Massa’s biography of the Maltese professor, Attard explains the first impressions Tolkien left on the mind of the young Maltese scholar, thus bringing to light what is most probably the one and only indirect connection of Tolkien with the Mediterranean island.