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NewsWire: Meeting Professor Tolkien - An American professor spent a summer with Tolkien. He remembers the man, his faith, and his writings.
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NewsWire: Gallery: The Inklings - ChristianityToday.com
August 18, 2003 - "Thursday evenings in Lewis's Magdalen College rooms and Tuesdays for lunch at the Eagle and Child public house, Tolkien joined C. S. Lewis and a revolving cast of others in a beloved ritual. Over tea--or ale--and pipes, these Oxford thinkers and writers read aloud from their works, traded anecdotes and jibes, and engaged in what Lewis called 'the cut and parry of prolonged, fierce, masculine argument.' Many passages of The Lord of the Rings found in the Inklings their first--and unfailingly appreciative--audience, much to the delight of their author..." |
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Lord of the Ring Road
August 18, 2003 - Chris Arnot joins a tour party looking for evidence of JRR Tolkien among the satellite dishes and net curtains of Birmingham. |
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Science Museum embarks on journey to Middle Earth
August 18, 2003 - Luke Layfield gets a sneak preview of a new exhibition based on the science behind the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. |
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Tolkien Speaks From Beyond the Grave! - The British Library Discovers Some Old Recordings...
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Bidding war for 'Rings' home - Tolkien's House Sells for 1.1 Million
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NewsWire: Saint J. R. R. the Evangelist
March 14, 2003 - His family and friends called him by his second given name, Ronald, but his first name was John, in honor of his patron saint, John the Evangelist. And when J. R. R. Tolkien wrote The Books that have now spawned The Movies, his work was deeply colored by the convictions of his Roman Catholic faith. |
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NewsWire: J. R. R. Tolkien Crowned "Lord of Science Fiction" - A natural choice ~
March 6, 2003 - The master, J.R.R. Tolkien, is No. 1 in a new ranking of science fiction and fantasy books. The newcomer, J.K. Rowling, failed to make the top 10. |
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J R R Tolkien's Grandson: 'Cut off from literary inheritance' - Speaking Out ~
February 25, 2003 - The grandson of J R R Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings books, has spoken for the first time of the family feud that has seen him excluded from managing the writer's literary estate. |
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NewsWire: Visionary Tolkien - Listen to Simon Tolkien speak of his Grandfather
February 12, 2003 - Commentator Simon Tolkien remarks on the visionary mind of his grandfather, J.R.R., who wrote the trilogy the movie is based on. |