1807 J. R. R. TOLKIEN. Original Brass Sign from Retreat Where Tolkien Dreamed Up Middle Earth! Puritan New Orleans

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1807 J. R. R. TOLKIEN. Original Brass Sign from Retreat Where Tolkien Dreamed Up Middle Earth! Puritan New OrleansA wonder full artifact with deep connections to the life of J. R. R. Tolkien. As a child, Tolkien's guardian after his mother died, Father Francis Morgan, would take take him and his brothers to Lyme Regis on the south coast of England. They would stay at what was then the finest hotel in town, The Three Cups. His imagination was stoked there. He recalled finding a large jaw bone as a child and half convinced himself it was that of a dragon. He drew*.