Born In The City of Roses

The Royal Janitor

By Jon Presco

Copyright 2018

Victoria Larabelle Bond, was born in the City of Roses. She and her mother lived two blocks from the home where J.R. Tolkien grew up, thus Victoria was well-versed in the cosmology Tolkien created. Indeed, she wrote a book of poems to go with the material. She studied Myths and Legends. Before she was thirteen she committed a million poems to memory.

Victoria’s mother, June Abigale Bond, supported herself and her only child dancing in a professional Zulu dancing troop that performed before Queen Elizabeth, who invited her to stay at Windsor Castle.

After Victoria finished telling Miriam Starfish her family background, she went to one knee, took Victoria’s hand, and placed it upon her head. Two minutes went by. The air was filled with a hum that sounded like a million bees taking wing.

to be continued

Play both videos at the same time and know why I walked out of ‘Black Panther’ seven minutes, in. We Earthlings, are………..The Peoples of the Drum!

The Afrikaans Language Museum in Bloemfontein was scheduled to have a bust of J.R.R. Tolkien in the front garden, along with other famous (predominantly South Africa Afrikaans and Dutch) authors. However, as many bronze busts were stolen over the decades this plan never materialized.[4] The Afrikaans Language Museum also hosted Tolkien exhibitions in the early 2000s.[5][6]

http://country.southafrica.net/country/us/en/articles/entry/article-southafrica.net-bloemfontein2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein is the city where J.R.R. Tolkien was born in 1892. Now part of the nation of South Africa, at the time that the Tolkien family lived there it was the capital of the independent Orange Free State. Tolkien, his mother, and his brother moved back to England in 1895 while his father, Arthur Tolkien, remained because of business until he died in 1896. Although the name of the city means “fountain of flowers” in Dutch and is nicknamed “Stad van die Rose” (English: City of the Roses) in Afrikaans, Tolkien’s first childhood memories were of a hot, parched country with a blazing sun, drawn curtains, and a drooping eucalyptus.[1]

Bloemfontein was also the seat of the now defunct South Africa Tolkien Society. This Tolkien Society published a touristic walking tour of Bloemfontein in the early 2000s.[2][3] The Bank of Africa building where Arthur Reuel Tolkien worked no longer exists and a commemorative plaque on the new building was stolen, later recovered and then stored in municipal archives. The Anglican Cathedral of Bloemfontein with the baptism font still stands today as do many of the sandstone buildings of the Republic of the Orange Free State period from the same period as J.R.R. Tolkien’s early years.