Video: Rose MacNamara recalls meeting JRR Tolkien at her home in Ireland

Image: Rose MacNamara

Rose MacNamara met legendary writer J.R.R. Tolkien at her home back in 1949 when he was an External examiner for the then University Collage Galway (now NUI). 

Here, in a video shared by The Gathering, she recollects how she met the man who wrote Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit:

Hat-Tip The Gathering 2013

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