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Category: <span>Adventure</span>

Category: Adventure

Bound for the United Kingdom: Tolkien, Brunanburh, and Owain Glyndwr

Some time ago I sent an email to the Bodleian Library at Oxford, one of the foremost libraries in the world, requesting permission to examine some of their one-of-a-kind holdings: the unpublished papers of J.R.R. Tolkien. I wanted to access this material not because it would be fun (though it …