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Antiques Roadshow guest astonished to learn Lord of the Rings letter is worth five-figure fortune

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ANTIQUES Roadshow delivered one of its biggest shocks tonight as a man brought in a letter from Lord Of The Rings author JRR Tolkein.

Guest Charles looked utterly stunned when told the single sheet of paper and torn-open envelope was worth a staggering £10,000.

Visibly shocked, he gasped: "Good lord. I'm astonished." Charles wrote to the English author in runes - an ancient language - when he was a teenager and got the reply which is now worth a fortune.

He got the good news about its value from book expert Clive Farahar on the programme tonight. Charles explained: "I got it as a reply to a letter I sent to Professor Tolkein when I was 14 and translated the rune letters in the cover - I wrote to him in rune letters and this was the reply he.

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