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Christopher Tolkien who is the youngest son of the (I think) great fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien who was born on November 21 1924. He is still living and active with editing and publishing his father's works.

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Presumably in Bournemouth, where he was living at the time.

Edit, He did die in Bournemouth but he had moved back to Oxford after his wife Edith died in 1971. He fell ill while visiting friends in the area and died a few days later on 2nd September 1973
Tolkien was taken ill while visiting friends in Bournemouth at the end of August 1973. He died a few days later on 2nd September.
He died in 1973 in Bournemouth, England.

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Of old age on 2 September 1973, at the age of 81. He was buried in the same grave as his wife Edith in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford.

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J.R.R Tolkien died of a bleeding ulcer, and a chest infection at age 81.

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J.R.R. Tolkien died in 1973.

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1971, at the age of 82.

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Edith Tolkien died in 1971.

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In 1976.

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