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In a graveyard in a leafy part of Oxfordshire, there's a tombstone paying tribute to The Lord of Rings author J.R.R Tolkien. With him lies his wife Edith Mary Tolkien, the woman who inspired many ...
The tombstone in front of me bore the names of Edith Mary Tolkien and her husband John Ronald, but underneath each name was another: "Lúthien" and "Beren." Young Tolkien had fallen in love with ...
takes the title role with the lovely Lily Collins as the object of Tolkien’s not exactly fiery romantic interest, Edith Mary Bratt. In opening scenes, we meet the young Tolkien (Harry Gilby ...
For a clue to just how personal, just take a look at the gravestone in Oxford’s Wolvercote Cemetery of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his wife Edith Mary Tolkien. Carved into the marble under ...
Standout scenes include Edith pressing Tolkien to turn his love of the sound ... the woods appears more than once — but of the Virgin Mary, an important inspiration for Galadriel, there is ...
Tolkein In Loveis a new BBC drama based on the young life of J R R Tolkien as a 16-year-old living in Birmingham, studying to apply to Oxford University, and meeting the 19-year-old Edith Mary ...
Statues of an incident that inspired the author JRR Tolkien will be unveiled in an East Yorkshire village next month. The wooden sculptures depict the writer's wife Edith dancing in a nearby wood ...
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Edith Mary Bratt first met in 1908. They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Birmingham, and despite the difference in their ages and religions - she was ...
In a graveyard in a leafy part of Oxfordshire, there's a tombstone paying tribute to The Lord of Rings author J.R.R Tolkien. With him lies his wife Edith Mary Tolkien, the woman who inspired many ...
For a clue to just how personal, just take a look at the gravestone in Oxford's Wolvercote Cemetery of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his wife Edith Mary Tolkien. Carved into the marble under their ...