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Books, letters and notes documenting the friendship between writer JRR Tolkien and a profoundly deaf fan have sold at auction for more than £100,000

Eileen Elgar, who died in 1980, used to live near the Hotel Miramar in Bournemouth where Tolkien and his wife holidayed every year.

Elgar wrote to the Lord of the Rings author, who lived in Oxford, in the 1960s and they began a friendship.

Among the lots, a letter mentioning the death of author CS Lewis and a signed copy of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil sold at Sotheby’s auction house in London for £20,480.