Alarond
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:22 am |
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A street named Tolkien?
Is there a street named after Tolkien?
If so, then "HURRAH!"
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If not, I move a motion to request that a road be named after Tolkien.
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wilko185
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:31 pm |
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I don't know of any Tolkien streets, though it wouldn't surprise me.
A ward at the Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital in Birmingham (the city where he was brought up) is named after Tolkien. Also, I believe that a rather grotty "Tolkien-themed" pub in Birmingham, featuring a bizarre sculpture of rings created by one of Tolkien's descendents, was going to be named after him, until the Tolkien Estate prevented it. And there's an asteroid named after Tolkien.
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.. the very monsters and huge fishes of the sea, war not amongst themselves in their own kind: but believe me, man at man's hand receiveth most harm and mischief.
-- Pliny |
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Canamarth
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:34 am |
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I don't know about a Tolkien Street, but I've heard of several new streets somewhere in the US and Holland, named after places or characters in his works.
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NienorNiniel
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wilko185
by stok other ston
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:18 pm |
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According to http://www.wordiq.com/definition/J._R._R._Tolkien, things named after Tolkien include:
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Asteroid 2675 Tolkien (a small main belt asteroid discovered by M. Watt in 1982)
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Tolkien Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex
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Tolkien Way, Stoke-On-Trent
edit:
Apparently
, Tolkien Way was not named after Tolkien, but his eldest son John Francis Tolkien, who was priest-in-charge at a church in Stoke.
I don't know if Tolkien has an Eastbourne connexion?
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.. the very monsters and huge fishes of the sea, war not amongst themselves in their own kind: but believe me, man at man's hand receiveth most harm and mischief.
-- Pliny |
Last edited by wilko185 on Sat Aug 21, 2004 3:43 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Dad-human
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:10 am |
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I hope the Tolkien asteroid doesn't crash into the Earth! That would be rather ironic.
In San Jose California there is a neighborhood with streets named after Gandalf, Bilbo, the Brandybucks, and other Tolkien characters. I've driven by there but never stopped. It seems like a nice place to live.
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NienorNiniel
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:15 am |
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And of course, we have [url=http://img-nex.theonering.net/images/scrapbook/6467.jpg]
Bilbo Surfshop...
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