PremiumJoanna WaneSenior Feature Writer Lifestyle Premium·Canvas·22 Jun, 2026 07:58 AM9 mins to readRoyd Tolkien (left) at Hobbiton in 2012 with his brother, Mike, two years before his death from motor neurone disease. J.R.R. Tolkien was their great-grandfather.Get a tattoo. Jump out of a plane. Do a stand-up comedy show. There’s nothing Royd Tolkien wouldn’t have done for his brother Mike, who died at 39 of motor neurone disease. Well, almost nothing.
A lot of ground had been covered once Royd Tolkien reached the very last
