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  Tolkien conference and fair to be held in Wales

  11.01.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  The Festival in the Shire, a conference, exhibition and fair celebrating the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, will be held in Machynlleth, Wales on August 13-15, 2010.

  The event will cater to both serious Tolkien fans and the general public by hosting three separate events.

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  Tolkien’s career in espionage greatly exaggerated

  09.30.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  In the wake of information released by a British government agency last week, news media globally have been reporting on the supposed “spy” career of author and philologist JRR Tolkien.

  If it’s hard to imagine the introverted, scholarly Oxford professor traveling the world, assassinating Nazis and bedding beautiful French Resistance fighters between swigs of a martini, shaken – not stirred, you are right to be skeptical.

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  ‘Fellowship’ Published 55 Years Ago Today

  07.19.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  On July 19th, 1954, 55 years ago today, The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, was published in London. The book was published in three volumes (instead of JRR Tolkien’s preferred seven) over the course of more than a year

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