Footnotes:

 

[1] Tolkien, JRR. The Hobbit. New York: Ballentine Books, 1997. p4

 

II Gerrolt, Dennis. ÒNow Read On. . .Ó BBC Radio 4. January 1971. http://www.daisy.freeserve.co.uk/jrrt_int.htm. September 15, 2004.  Modified to fit the context of the text.

 

III Tolkien, JRR. The Fellowship of The Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. p252

 

IV Birzer, Bradley J. Christian History. ÒTolkien: Man Behind the Myth.Ó 2003. http://www.ctlibrary.com/ch/2003/78/1.10.html

 

V Tolkien, JRR. The Fellowship of The Ring. Boston:Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. p291

 

VI http://www.spowers.net/Tolkien/Tolk-Oxford-Mirror/addisons_walk.html

 

VII Tolkien, JRR. The Hobbit. New York: Ballentine Books, 1997. p300

 

 

 

Pictures:

 

Picture of home found at http://home.freeuk.net/webbuk2/tolkien-biography.htm

 

Picture of Edith Tolkien found at www.arwen-undomiel.com/tolkien/fallery.html and at http://home.freeuk.net/webbuk2/tolkien-biography.htm

 

Picture of Sampson Gamgee found at http://home.freeuk.net/webbuk2/tolkien-biography.htm amd http://ctlibrary.com/7810

 

Picture of Merton College found at www.merton.ox.ac.uk/

 

Map found at  www.taylorcustom.com/localinks/mearth/mearthmap.html

 

Picture of AddisonÕs Walk found at www.spowers.net/Tolkien/Tolk-Oxford-Mirror/addisons_walk.html

 

Picture of Hob Lane found at http://home.freeuk.net/webbuk2/tolkien-biography.htm

 

Picture of Tolkien on Fun Links page found at http://www.folkbibliotek.lund.se/html/amnesresurser/litteratur/tolkien.htm

 

 

 

 

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