The tree is said to have been one of JRR Tolkien's favourites A 215-year-old black pine known as "Tolkien's tree" in Oxford University's Botanic Garden is to be felled after two of its branches ...

Workers at the Oxford Botanic Garden have been bombarded with emails from angry JRR Tolkien fans after a pine tree famed for its associations with the writ... Sunday, 1 June 2025 Newsletters ...

IT is said to have influenced the work of JRR Tolkien and inspired creatures ... Garden and we are very sad to lose such an iconic tree.” Tolkien, who was a fellow of Pembroke College and ...

A statue of a JRR Tolkien character will be erected in the Birmingham suburb where the author grew up and which inspired many of his books. The 20ft (6m) stainless steel structure of Treebeard the Ent ...

The story reflects Tolkien’s love of nature; in a preface to one reprinting, the author wrote that he was inspired by a “great-limbed poplar tree ... Strider sitting in the corner at ...

The tree was a favourite of JRR Tolkien during his time in Oxford. Ms Foster said staff heard noises coming from the tree and moved visitors away from the area of the walled garden shortly before ...