Artifacts of J.R.R. Tolkien

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     The inklings were a group of me and friends. We were all British, male and Christian, and all associated with Oxford in some way. We were critics for each other, we were all creative writers and lovers of imaginative thinkers.We would meet in Oxford pubs, mostly the Eagle and Child. Contrary to popular belief, we didn't actually read our manuscripts in the pubs.

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     My Lord of the Rings created a "Cult". It almost became the bible for Alternative society. I was flattered and all the way on the other side of the scale. I became extremely rich from sales from when the book was pirated and I also deplored those who thought it was a good idea to indulge themselves in my book and take LSD at the same time. Some parts got to a point where people were calling me in the morning to get information about the book.

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     Up above are Dwarf runes. I had created manly languages, ranging from black speech to elvish. I had also created Mythology. When I was grading a note book, there was a blank page, on it I wrote "In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit." This sprang a Series of events of me thinking, "What type of hole did a Hobbit live in?

"Biography." The Tolkien Society. 8 Feb. 2014. Web. 12 Dec. 2015

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     When I was a professor for the Anglo-Saxon, I had traveled to ruins in Lydney Park. it was a roman temple called Dwarf's hill. I was then told (Supposedly, I have to keep the mystery going) about a gold ring that was inscribed at Hampshire Field. A year later I wrote a tale about a Hobbit who finds a magic ring. It's also believed I wrote after hearing a bout a cursed tablet, a cursed ring. I will not tell if this is truth or not to keep speculations going.

"The Hobbit: How England Inspired Tolkien's Middle Earth - BBC News."BBC News. Rumeana Jahangir, 7 Dec. 2014. Web. 11 Dec. 2015

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     In 1911 I took a trip to Switzerland that later gave me the idea for the journey Bilbo would of taken. We went on foot going through mountain paths with heavy packs on our backs. We went to Lauterbrunnen and to Mürren. Going from there we went to the head of Lauterbrunnenthal in a wilderness of morains. The view I had gotten from this trip is almost identical to Rivendell.

"The Hobbit: How England Inspired Tolkien's Middle Earth - BBC News."BBC News. Rumeana Jahangir, 7 Dec. 2014. Web. 11 Dec. 2015.

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    Now, I had been a professor of Anglo-Saxon at oxford. Before this I was a student there, in a sense, I had come home when returning there as a professor. My academic publication record was sparse, but I fitted in perfectly in the education world. It was influential, when I gave one of my lectures, Beowulf, the Monsters and the Critics, my almost throwaway comments helped in understanding it. Apart from that I taught undergraduates, and I played an Important part and unexceptional part.

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     A french battle field from world war one, The battle of Somme. This had somewhat inspired The dead marshes, the place where Frodo had been transfixed by the corpses in the water. I like to say that the two world wars didn't affect me writing.  "An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous." (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29787528).The approach to Mordor's Black Gate, I owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme.(http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29787528).

"The Hobbit: How England Inspired Tolkien's Middle Earth - BBC News."BBC News. Rumeana Jahangir, 7 Dec. 2014. Web. 11 Dec. 2015.