Jan. 3, 2013 ~ Happy 121st birthday, Professor Tolkien.

Happy Birthday!

The picture below is the last-known picture taken of J.R.R.T., standing in front of his favourite tree in the botanical gardens in Oxford, Aug. 9, 1973. Not quite a month later, he had died.

To the man who loved trees, could feel the life pulsing through them, hear them breathe, even speak.



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Tumble Hill (drawing dated 1928):





Old Man Willow (undated), cropped:





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