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Christopher, Priscilla, Michael, Edith and JRRT, on holiday in Weston-super-Mare, April 1940.<\/p>\n

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Arthur Reuel Tolkien, manager with the Bank of Africa in Bloemfontein, with his dog, Meg, 1892.<\/p>\n

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Gracewell Road, Sarehole, c. 1900. Tolkien lived here with his mother and younger brother for four years, between the ages of four and eight.<\/p>\n

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King Edward\u2019s School, New Street, Birmingham, c.1900. Tolkien attended the school, 1900-1901, and returned to complete his schooling with the aid of a scholarship, 1903-1911.<\/p>\n

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Father Francis Xavier Morgan (1857-1935) was appointed by Mabel Tolkien to be the guardian of her two young sons on her death in 1904. He became a second father to the boys and, in time, a grandfather to their own children.<\/p>\n

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Duchess Road, Edgbaston where Tolkien and his brother, Hilary, lived in lodgings, 1908-1909. It was here that Tolkien met and fell in love with Edith Bratt, a fellow lodger.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien (seated, centre) enjoying a walking holiday in Switzerland in 1911, shortly before he started university. The group included his brother Hilary, and his aunt Jane Neave.<\/p>\n

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View of Exeter College, Oxford, from the corner of Turl Street and Brasenose Lane, 1913. Tolkien lived in the college as a student for three years. He has marked his bedroom window with a cross.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien served in the Lancashire Fusiliers during World War 1. This photograph was taken in Birmingham before he was sent to France for the Battle of the Somme, 1916.<\/p>\n

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Soldiers digging a communication trench, through Delville wood, Somme battlefield, 13 July 1916.<\/p>\n

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Edith holding her first child, John Francis, who was born in Cheltenham in 1917. Tolkien was in hospital in Hull recovering from recurring bouts of trench fever and was not able to see his newborn son until several days after the birth.<\/p>\n

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The University of Leeds, 1913. Tolkien took up his first academic position at Leeds in 1920 as Reader in English Language and was promoted to Professor in 1924.<\/p>\n

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Michael and John photographed in Leeds in December 1921, aged one and four.<\/p>\n

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Quad and porter\u2019s lodge, Pembroke College, Oxford, c.1894. Tolkien was a Fellow of the College from 1925 to 1945.<\/p>\n

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C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) photographed by Hans Wild in 1946. Tolkien met Lewis in the 1920s at the University of Oxford where they both taught English. They quickly became friends and formed the nucleus of the literary group known as the Inklings.<\/p>\n

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Christopher, Michael (in foreground), John, Edith holding Priscilla and the au pair (Tolkien was taking the photograph), 26 March 1930.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien and his wife Edith, at 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford, c.1936. They bought the house from the publisher, Basil Blackwell and it was their family home for seventeen years.<\/p>\n

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Stanley Unwin (1884-1968), photographed by Walter Stoneman in 1946. Unwin was the head of the publishing firm, George Allen & Unwin, and took the decision in 1936 to publish The Hobbit. It was the start of a long and fruitful relationship with Tolkien.<\/p>\n

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Michael Tolkien outside 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford, March 1940. He was at Trinity College, Oxford, studying history but would shortly be called up for military service.<\/p>\n

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Christopher (standing, centre) with his RAF squadron in Kroonstadt, South Africa, July 1944, where he was training to be a fighter pilot.<\/p>\n

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Christopher and his father in 1945, taken in the garden at 20 Northmoor Road. Christopher had qualified as a fighter pilot, as shown by the \u2018wings\u2019 above his left breast pocket.<\/p>\n

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View of Merton College, Oxford from Christ Church meadow. Tolkien was appointed Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford in 1945.<\/p>\n

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\u2018The Laughing Philosopher\u2019, taken at the Garden House Hotel, Cambridge, August 1952. Tolkien was visiting the library at Corpus Christi College to work on the Middle English text, Ancrene Wisse<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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W.H. Auden photographed at Christ Church, Oxford, 1972 by Billett Potter. He wrote very positive reviews of The Lord of the Rings on its publication in 1954 and 1955.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien leaving Pembroke College, Oxford, 1960s.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien at the Hotel Miramar, Bournemouth, July 1965. He and Edith took many holidays at the hotel in their later years.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien at home in Poole, Dorset, August 1968. He had moved from Oxford earlier in the year, partly to escape from the intrusions on his personal life which followed the success of his books.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien and Edith at home in Poole, Dorset, July 1969. Edith was very happy in her new home with its modern conveniences and its proximity to the sea.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien in his flat on Merton Street, Oxford, 1972. Photographed by Billett Potter. After Edith\u2019s death in 1971, Tolkien returned to Oxford where he was close to family and friends.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien holding his C.B.E. outside Buckingham Palace with his son, John and daughter, Priscilla, March 1972.<\/p>\n

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This is the last photograph of Tolkien. It was taken in the Botanic Garden, Oxford, 9 August 1973 by his eldest grandchild, Michael George Tolkien. He is leaning against the trunk of a large black pine (Pinus nigra), one of his favourite trees.<\/p>\n

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Christopher Tolkien photographed at home in 2016. He worked on his father\u2019s papers for over 40 years and by the end of his life he had edited and published twenty-four volumes of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s works.<\/span><\/p>\n

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