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Mr. Bliss is an illustrated children's story by J.R.R. Tolkien, first published posthumously in 1982. The story tells of Mr Bliss's purchase of a car, and the misadventure that follows his poor driving: he encounters several neighbours, three bears, an angry shop-owner, and his own pet the "Girabbit".

The story was likely written down in the early 1930s, is fully illustrated by Tolkien, with his own calligraphic handwriting integral to the design; it was first submitted for publication in 1936 but the cost of reproducing the artwork made it prohibitively expensive. Tolkien endeavoured to redraw it, but never got around to it; it was finally published in 1982, and in 2007 it was rescanned and republished to a higher quality.

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“'I have come,' he said. 'But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!' And suddenly, as he set it on his finger, he vanished from Sam's sight.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "Mount Doom"

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1897 - Actor Cyril Ritchard is born.
1913 - J.R.R. Tolkien is elected president of Stapledon Society, a student body at Exeter College.
1914 - Tolkien's close friend at Oxford, Geoffrey Bache Smith, enters service with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
1954 - J.R.R. Tolkien starts writing a letter to Rayner Heppenstall.
1973 - Actor Duncan McIntyre dies.
1975 - An Extrapolation on The Silmarillion is published.
1976 - Actor Dean O'Gorman is born.
1986 - Evocation of Virgil in Tolkien's Art is published.
1995 - J.R.R. Tolkien (Writers and Their Work) is published.
2003 - Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic is published.
2003 - Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon is published.
2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King premières in Wellington, New Zealand.
2007 - Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians is published.
2009 - The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood is released in North America.
2009 - Born of Hope is released online.
2010 - Middle-earth and Beyond: Essays on the World of J.R.R. Tolkien is published.
2014 - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies premières in Leicester Square, London.
2017 - Death and Immortality in Middle-earth is published.

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T.A. 3018:
- Frodo and Samwise rest in Rivendell and prepare for their quest to destroy The One Ring.

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