# Big new exhibit on Tolkien at the Morgan Library in NYC through May 12

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-new-exhibit-on-tolkien-at-the-morgan-library-in-nyc-through-may-12/827741/1 "2019-01-14T16:13:39Z")

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I hope to go:

> **[Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth](https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/tolkien)**
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> The exhibition will be the most extensive public display of original Tolkien material for several generations.

> **[Morgan Library & Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Library_%26_Museum)**
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> The Morgan Library & Museum, formerly the Pierpont Morgan Library, is a museum and research library in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is situated at 225 Madison Avenue, between 36th Street to the south and 37th Street to the north.
> The Morgan Library & Museum is composed of several structures. The main building was designed by Charles McKim of the firm of McKim, Mead and White, with an annex designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris. A 19th-century Italianate brownston...

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-new-exhibit-on-tolkien-at-the-morgan-library-in-nyc-through-may-12/827741/2 "2019-01-14T16:27:15Z")

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Oh, my, I foresee a visit to New York soon. :eek:

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-new-exhibit-on-tolkien-at-the-morgan-library-in-nyc-through-may-12/827741/3 "2019-01-14T20:51:45Z")

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I saw the exhibit last summer at the Bodleian in Oxford. It’s excellent. Nice to see it’s going on tour. (Steath brag: And in Oxford, it was completely free - not $20 like in NYC)

It takes about an hour to see the whole thing, if you take time to pore over each display. Subtle and low key in that English way - in a section devoted to fan mail, there was a letter from a young “Terence Pratchett”, but they didn’t call attention to it in any way.

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**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-new-exhibit-on-tolkien-at-the-morgan-library-in-nyc-through-may-12/827741/4 "2019-01-14T20:52:32Z")

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Awesome! Now on my list of “to do” this spring!