A bucket list of 50 challenges was assembled over a couple of years when Royd Tolkien's brother Mike was growing increasingly ill with motor neurone disease (MND).
From visiting an active volcano to flying a plane and carving a greenstone, the tasks ended up dramatically altering Royd's life.
Revealed in an exclusive book extract, here's what happened when he was tasked with taking a flight dressed as a character from Lord of the Rings.Heathrow already.
I look at my phone. What was really a forty minute drive seemed to last barely two. We unload our luggage, and all the camera kit, and walk into Terminal 2.
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