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Oxford University

This is the highly respected university where J.R.R. Tolkien did his undergraduate work and taught later in his life.

Leeds

This is a city and the university where J.R.R. Tolkien attained his first professional position as a Reader, before being promoted to Professor.

England

This is the author's home nation that is the presumed backdrop for the events that unfold.

Mordor

This is the fictional location of the Evil Sauron's powerbase and is mentioned in a number of the writings interspersed throughout the book.

Cracks of Doom

This is a fictional place, modeled in many ways on a real location as a mountain that has a volcano, and provides the possibility of returning the Ring to its place of origin, and thereby destroying it.

Numenor

This is the fictional land of the immortal, artistic, alternate humanoid forms in The Lord of the...

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