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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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  Happy Eleventy-ninth Birthday, JRR Tolkien

  01.03.11 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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)…

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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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