TICKETS are now on sale for a Bodleian Library exhibition about Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien.

The Oxford University library is preparing to present the most extensive collection of materials relating to the author since the 1950s.

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth launches at the Weston Library in Broad Street on Friday, June 1 and runs until October 28.

It will feature more than 200 items, half of which have never been displayed before, from the library’s extensive Tolkien Archive and Marquette University’s Tolkien Collection, as well as from important private collections.

A statement on the Bodleian’s website said: “This seminal exhibition is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to see this magnitude of Tolkien-related materials together.

“The various manuscripts, artworks, maps, letters and artefacts have been gathered from the UK, the US and France, and many will be reunited in Oxford for the first time since the death of J.R.R.Tolkien more than 40 years ago, in a city where Tolkien spent most of his adult life, first as a student of classics in 1911, and eventually as a professor of English language and literature.”

For more visit bodleian.ox.ac.uk