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For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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J. R. R. Tolkien
Age: 81 †
Born: 1892
Born: January 3
Died: 1973
Died: September 2
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