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    English: Photograph of J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1920s on leaving Leeds University
    Date Between 1925 and early 1926. On public display shortly after creation. First known print publication 8 October 1937 in The Catholic Herald.
    Source Epistle of Dude, Photos from the lives of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, probably originally sourced from John Garth, Tolkien and the Great War.
    Author Unknown photo studio commissioned by Tolkien's students 1925/6 (private communication from Catherine McIlwaine, Tolkien Archivist, Bodleian Library)
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    Picture of author J.R.R. Tolkien during the 1920s.
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