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.

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     The inspiration for the shire, the place where Hobbits live. This is Sarehole mill, I grew up in this area after moving from South Africa after the death of my father. This place had a few spots of countryside to walk and spend days in. This was the main part of the inspiration. A few square miles of country land in Sarehole. I also incorporated the corn mill by the water. I even Wrote to a newspaper about this specific topic.

"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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     This is the cover of one of my books, The Hobbit. This book was written in 1937, about 45 years after my birth. I sent it to my publisher and his son wrote a review to see if it was worthy to be sold. What happens in the story is a Hobbit by the name of Bilbo goes on an adventure with a group of Dwarves and a wizard by the name of Gandalf. The leader of the Dwarves' name was Thorin. Thorin and Gandalf were originally going to have their names switched around.

Hardy, Gene B. CliffsNotes on The Hobbit. 11 Dec 2015
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This is my wife Edith Bratt, well Edith Tolkien. She was The Lúthien to my Beren. When we were walking along the country side, she would sing and dance. I fell in love with her when I was eighteen, she was older than I and wasn't Catholic. I was forbidden to see her until I was old enough to marry. She was already betrothed to someone else when I met up with her again, but she ended it with him and married me, after becoming a Catholic.

"Edith Tolkien - Tolkien Gateway." Edith Tolkien - Tolkien Gateway. 3 May 2015. Web. 12 Dec. 2015. <http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Edith_Tolkien>