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JRR Tolkien - the Irish Connection
The imagination of author JRR Tolkien who created the mystical Middle Earth
of the Lord of the Rings was first nurtured in the Irish community in the
Midlands. Tolkien grew up in the Sarehole, Moseley, Kings Heath and Ladywood
areas of Birmingham and after the age of 12, when his mother died, Father
Francis Xavier Morgan of the Catholic Oratory became guardian to him and
his brother Hilary.
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