The Bodleian Libraries’ exhibition, Treasured, offers a rare chance to encounter some of the most extraordinary books, manuscripts and items in its collections.
If, in the 1930s, someone had sought to predict the bestselling English author of the 20th century, they probably would not have selected the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), “The Shores of Faery, 10 May 1915,” watercolor, black ink, pencil (Tolkien Trust, MS,Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 22r., © The ...
“A real taste for fairy-stories was wakened by philology on the threshold of manhood,” Tolkien wrote, “and quickened to full life by war.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in 1892 and thus was in ...
The 2025 record price for John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was for J.R.R. Tolkien's Merton College Desk The 2024 record price for John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was for TOLKIEN, J.R.R. [The Lord of the Rings ...