From Tolkien’s favourite tree to a royal sapling

Michael George Tolkien JRR Tolkien in the Oxford Botanic Garden with his right arm on the Black Pine in August 1973. The author is using a cane. The image is clak and white but it appears to have been a sunny day.Michael George Tolkien

JRR Tolkien is pictured next to the tree in August 1973 in what is believed to be one of the last photographs of The Lord of the Rings author

For about two centuries, a towering black pine stood in the University of Oxford…

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