We decided on the name Tolkien.

I know what you are thinking, and this wasn’t some nerd humor naming him after JRR Tolkien because I am a Lord of the Rings freak. Well, not really…

You see, our cat is a British Shorthair. After going through the usual lists of names such as Star Trek characters, Star Wars, Mathematicians, Inventors, Actors, etc, we thought we should name him something british. We started with the counties, then looked at cities, and then thought about famous british people. That is where we thought of Tolkien.

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