Tolkien started inventing languages when he was a young boy. He said that inventing languages came first, and then he wanted a world to set those languages in. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth at the Weston Library 1 June - 28 October 2018. https://tolkien.bodleian.ox.ac.uk | Bodleian Libraries

Fantasy authors 🤝 The Bodleian Libraries. J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones, Alan Garner, Philip Pullman...who's your favourite fantasy writer from Oxford? With thanks to one of our newest, @jamiecassauthor, for this video from his favourite writing spot inside Duke Humfrey's library. | Bodleian Libraries