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Staff at a Stirling charity shop have said they are “thrilled” after an extremely rare edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit fetched a record £3,000. The much-loved classic was tucked among a pile of ...

The rare edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit sold for £3,000 during the Christmas period (Oxfam and PA/PA) Staff at a Stirling charity shop have said they are “thrilled” after an extremely rare ...

And when he was a soldier in World War I, to escape the horrors of the battlefield he would think about a magical world he called “Middle-earth,” filled with mythical creatures.

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, an English writer and author of the high-fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was born in South Africa on January 3, 1892. Many will celebrate his birthday ...

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