Remembering J.R.R. Tolkien on his birthday 🎂
📷 Lord Snowdon, 1972
"On some subjects Tolkien simply knew more, and had thought more deeply, than anyone else in the world."
- T. A. Shippey
I adore this drawing of J.R.R. Tolkien by Betty Swanwick.
pencil and wash, 1966-1967
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J.R.R. Tolkien by John Wyatt
bromide print, February 1968
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J. R. R. Tolkien by Haywood Magee, 1955
"There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go."
The Oxford Tolkien Society's 25th birthday garden party.
📷 Martin Parr, Christ Church College, 2015
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