{"id":62473,"date":"2012-09-30T20:47:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T01:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=62473"},"modified":"2012-10-01T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:40:22","slug":"tolkien-society-to-unveil-j-r-r-tolkien-commemorative-plaque-in-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/09\/30\/62473-tolkien-society-to-unveil-j-r-r-tolkien-commemorative-plaque-in-leeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Society Unveils Tolkien Commemorative Plaque in Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/09\/30\/62473-tolkien-society-to-unveil-j-r-r-tolkien-commemorative-plaque-in-leeds\/leedsplaque-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62592\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-62592 no-lazyload\" title=\"LeedsPlaque\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LeedsPlaque1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LeedsPlaque1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LeedsPlaque1-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LeedsPlaque1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The Tolkien Society has unveiled a lovely new &#8216;blue plaque,&#8217; (a.k.a. historical marker), at <span style=\"color: #000000;\">2 Darnley Road, West Park, Leeds<\/span>, commemorating the time J.R.R. Tolkien lived there. Tolkien became Reader in English language at the University of Leeds and <span style=\"color: #000000;\">went on to be Professor of the English Language at the university<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1924 Tolkien bought the semi-detached property on Darnley Road and t<span style=\"color: #000000;\">he family lived there for over a year before Tolkien\u2019s election to the Rawlinson and Bosworth chair of Anglo-Saxon saw them return to Oxford in 1926.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Kersten Hall, graduate of St. Anne\u2019s College, Oxford and Visiting Fellow to the Faculty of Arts at the University of Leeds, unveiled the plaque on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of October 2012 at 11:30 a.m. local time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Watchful visitors to the U.K. are sure to have seen a similar plaque on the house at 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford, where Tolkien lived and wrote <em>LOTR<\/em> during his tenure.\u00a0 There is a featured shot of this plaque in the documentary film, <a href=\"www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0379473\" target=\"_blank\">RINGERS: Lord of the Fans<\/a>, which was co-produced by TheOneRing.net.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tolkien Society has unveiled a lovely new &#8216;blue plaque,&#8217; (a.k.a. historical marker), at 2 Darnley Road, West&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[153,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-life","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gfD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62473"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62491,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62473\/revisions\/62491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}