Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien

[flyingwelshman]

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - born January 3rd, 1892

"The road goes ever on and on...."

[WanderingStar]

A truly great author. I think his work will always be read. There is wisdom in it.

[SecondWindNC]

There are *very* few books I will read more than once (after all, there's so much out there I haven't read yet, and so little time).

But I find myself going back to the Lord of the Rings trilogy every couple of years.

[Barnstormer]

By random chance I've done the 3 movies over the last 3 days. While not perfect, I think they did a great job putting the books onscreen.

[tager]

All who wander are not lost. Not all who wander are lost.

[kredit]

I dated a few times Rachel Tolkien way back in '97 in Prague. Our first date when she was only known as Reech,we were walking round Paleckho Namesti when she asked me if I wanted to meet her grandfather. I was a bit confused and played along and she led me to a huge bookstore display booth of all the Tolkien jargon surrounded by a huge poster of her grandpa. She had a horrible queens english accent and talked bout her family alot but I didnt give a **** as I was a drunken gigolo ...happy bday rachel!