• Ian Braisby (our guide to Birmingham)
• Eminence Travel and Abbas, our van driver
• Joe (the current owner of Fern Cottage)
• The Tolkien Society
• Tolkien Gateway
• Birmingham Library
• Staff of:
  • Sarehole Mill
  • Birmingham Museum
  • Ashmolean Museum
  • Exeter
  • Merton
  • Eagle and Child
  • Blakesley Hall
  • White Horse
  • Oxford Museum of the History of Science
• Phillipa Semper (our guide to the Staffordshire Hoard)
• City of Birmingham
• John Garth
• Robert Blackham
• The Rollright Stones
• The University of New Mexico Honors College
• and the Ents!

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