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How well do you know J.R.R Tolkien?
New exhibition opens of fan letters written to the writer J.R.R Tolkien
J.R.R Tolkien was a creative genius. Certainly his fans would agree with that. Now, for the first time, a collection of fan letters written to him will go on display in a new exhibition about his life.
Richard Ovenden from the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries, told John Humphrys that the exhibition's extraordinary collection of fan letters ranges from "the daughter of American president Lyndon B Johnson, to singer Joni Mitchell, and a young Terry Pratchett".
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