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.
Tolkien c. 1925–1926
1892 Christmas card with a coloured photo of the Tolkien family in Bloemfontein, sent to relatives in Birmingham, England
Birmingham Oratory, where Tolkien was a parishioner and altar boy (1902–1911)
King Edward's School in Birmingham, where Tolkien was a pupil (1900–1902, 1903–1911)
Tolkien family
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The Tolkien family is an English family of German descent whose best-known member is J. R. R. Tolkien, Oxford academic and author of the fantasy books The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmari
J. R. R. Tolkien
…January 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (later annexed by the British Empire; now Free State Province in the Republic of South Africa), to Arthur Reuel Tolkien, an English bank manager, and his wife Mabel, née Suffield. The couple had left England when Arthur was promoted to head the Bloemfontein office of the…
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St Peter's Catholic Church, Bromsgrove: grave of Mabel Tolkien (1870–1904)
Edith, aged 17, 1906