J.R.R. Tolkien died today – 34 years ago

English writer J.R.R. Tolkien was born as John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa. He said, “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." [Amen. Especially for those songs.]... Mr. Tolkien died in 1973 in Bournemouth, England.