Birmingham Oratory
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The Birmingham Oratory is a Roman Catholic religious community of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, located in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham. The community was founded in 1849 by John Henry Newman as
Birmingham Oratory Front
The nave of the Oratory church
The altar of the Oratory church
The dome of the Oratory church
J. R. R. Tolkien
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Birmingham Oratory
…suffered the theft of a large metal cross from its roof. The loss was valued at £30,000. The Birmingham Oratory was to play a major role in the life of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, who was a parishioner there for about nine years during his childhood. After the unexpected death of their father…
Tolkien c. 1925–1926
1892 Christmas card with a coloured photo of the Tolkien family in Bloemfontein, sent to relatives in Birmingham, England
King Edward's School in Birmingham, where Tolkien was a pupil (1900–1902, 1903–1911)