J R R Tolkien

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• Ring that may have inspired Tolkien goes on show

  the artifact on display Tuesday for fans of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" to decide for themselves whether this was Tolkien's precious ring of power.Found in a field near a historic Roman town in southern England in 1785, the gold ring is inscribed   Read more »

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• Sydenham schoolgirls learn about the Middle Ages at Oxford University

  GROUP of Sydenham School pupils have been given the chance to walk in the footsteps of J.R.R. Tolkien and T.S. Eliot during a recent tour of Oxford University. The Year 10 students were offered a taster of academic life on the away-day at Merton College, where   from This is Local London Read more »

• Bing Translator Adds Klingon to Its Language List

  its translator feature into the final frontier. Fantasy and science fiction can be heavy on the fake languages. I blame J.R.R. Tolkien. He had perfectly good real world languages to work with but he had to create his own and inspire generations of nerds to   from The Escapist Read more »

• Anti-Infringement Company Caught Infringing On Its Website

  maybe descriptive Post Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"] Trademarks property of their respective owners. Comments owned by the poster. Copyright © 2013   from Slashdot Read more »

• Adventure Time

  with an impressive array of real-world and fantastical relics: In addition to that Iron Throne, there are things like J.R.R. Tolkien's original manuscripts and drawings from The Lord of the Rings. Pan's disembodied head from Pan's Labyrinth sits there, being   from The Portland Mercury Read more »

• Enter the Dragon, Tolkien-Style

  a ray of delight flickers across Benedict Cumberbatch’s pale eyes. Smaug, “a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm” of Tolkien lore, is for many children their first encounter with fire-breathing, scaly dragons. “First one for me,” Cumberbatch is quick   from Wall Street Journal Blogs Read more »