Tolkien was distantly connected to Esperanto at the same time. His name appears as one of multiple academic signatories on some public letters promoting Esperanto, that sort of thing. But there's no evidence he was actively involved, and in later years he disavowed any interest in such artificial utilitarian languages at all.

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I'll never forget the time someone described the position of people in a photo the way that you do here and one of the readers was utterly baffled by it: couldn't figure out which of the two women was being referred to by which description.

On the other hand, I have also occasionally seen descriptions in such cases using terms like "his left" when it turns out they actually meant "the left."

I'm guessing these are people who lack a theory of mind: can't imagine that somebody else is facing in another direction than themselves.