Tolkien Notes 23

Groundbreaker Last December, Christie’s London offered at auction (‘Groundbreakers: Icons of Our Time’) the rolltop desk Tolkien used in his rooms at Merton College, Oxford, and later in his home in Sandfield Road. In 1968, when he and his wife moved to Poole, Tolkien sold the desk to his friend, the author Iris Murdoch. An […]