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This month in Middle-earth history: January 2011
01.05.11 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

This month in Middle-earth and Tolkien history: The Fellowship enters Moria and Gandalf gets killed (temporarily); JRR Tolkien and Elijah Wood are born…
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Today in Tolkien History: Tolkien marries in 1916
03.22.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

On this day, March 22nd, in 1916, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien married Edith Mary Bratt at the Catholic Church of St. Mary Immaculate in Warwick, Warwickshire, England. He was 24; she was 27.
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Happy eleventy-eighth birthday to ‘Lord of the Rings’ author JRR Tolkien
01.03.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, Oxford University professor, and author of the globally beloved fantasy epics The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was born eleventy-seven years ago today, on January 3rd, 1892, in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa.
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Today in Tolkien History: son Father John Tolkien born in 1917
11.16.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 2 Comments

On November 16th, 1917 John Francis Reuel Tolkien was born to future Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien and his wife, Edith Mary Tolkien (née Bratt). He was their first child of four. Father Tolkien passed away in January 2003, while denying allegations that he had sexually assaulted a teenage congregant in the 1960s.