Westminster Abbey to display a memorial to J.R.R. Tolkien

Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner will get a new resident next year, when a memorial to J.R.R. Tolkien is unveiled to mark the 90th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit.
The Tree of Amalion, 1928 (c) Tolkien Trust, 1978
The new memorial has been inspired by Tolkien’s Tree of Tales, which he called the Tree of Amalion. Featuring the imagery of a tree in a forest as its central theme, it will be a significant new artwork for the Abbey, inlaid vertically within a stone pil