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		<title>This month in Middle-earth history: January 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month in Middle-earth and Tolkien history: The Fellowship enters Moria and Gandalf gets killed (temporarily); JRR Tolkien and Elijah Wood are born...]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Eleventy-ninth Birthday, JRR Tolkien</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author, philologist and mythopoet JRR Tolkien was born on January 3rd, 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province, part of South Africa) to Arthur Reuel Tolkien (1857–1896), an English bank manager, and his wife Mabel, née Suffield (1870–1904)...]]></description>
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		<title>Forbes: Tolkien is Third Wealthiest Celeb in Halls of Mandos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Professor is moving up in the world, at least financially. JRR Tolkien is the third wealthiest dead celebrity in Forbes Magazine's yearly poll, up from fifth place last year.]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien 101: Samwise Gamgee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think it strange to devote an entire article to someone as small and insignificant in the Legendarium as Samwise Gamgee, then you have bought into Sam’s own view of himself, as nothing but a simple gardener from The Shire.

But many have suggested that Sam, rather than Aragorn or Frodo, is the main hero of The Lord of the Rings; and this view was promulgated by no less an authority than JRR Tolkien himself...]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien&#8217;s favorite Oxford pub to get major renovations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oxford, England's Eagle and Child pub, famed as a meeting place of the Inklings literary society in the 1930s and '40s, will soon see major renovations, according to St John's College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.]]></description>
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		<title>The word &#8220;Hobbit&#8221; in The Oxford English Dictionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have fulfilled a lifelong dream, and acquired my very own (digital) copy of the complete Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. Of course, the very first word I looked up was "hobbit," which is famously included in this edition. I hereby reproduce the pertinent parts of the entry...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Tolkien History: Tolkien marries in 1916</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Tolkien&#8217;s original art on display today in Oxford</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kunochan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original art by fantasy author JRR Tolkien will be on display today only, March 4th, at the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, in celebration of World Book Day.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy eleventy-eighth birthday to &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; author JRR Tolkien</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Forbes: Tolkien is 5th richest dead celebrity for 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With an estimated $50 million in income to his estate in the last 12 months, Tolkien beat out Peanuts creator Charles Schulz ($35 million); peace chance-giver John Lennon ($15 million); childrens' author and cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel ($15 million); and global warming denier Michael Crichton ($9 million).]]></description>
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