Born on this day 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa,
JRR (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
Tolkien, whose fiction is influenced by Wales, is known to have loved the Welsh landscape and its language. For example, the Elvish language, Sindarin, sounds very much like Welsh and many of his place names have similar Welsh equivalents e.g. Crick Hollow (Crickhowell).
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