The Entwives are one of The Lord of the Rings' biggest mysteries, but J.R.R. Tolkien explained what happened to them in a ...

Tolkien and his wife, Edith, in a 1940 family photo. Their sons Christopher and Michael (flanking their sister Priscilla) would soon leave to serve in the war. Oxford, Bodleian Libraries ...

JRR Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the ... Tolkien met his future wife Edith when he was 16. As she was a few years older and not a Catholic, she was deemed completely unsuitable ...

For example, Arwen and her ancestor, Lúthien, were modeled after Tolkien's wife, Edith. Like her, they had fair skin, gray eyes, and dark hair, and Tolkien wrote that Lúthien was the most ...

JRR Tolkien spent 18 years in East Yorkshire recovering from trench fever after World War One. The collection of letters and manuscripts goes on sale after being found in a plastic bag in an attic.

JRR Tolkien spent almost 18 months in Hull and ... One of the hand-carved oak statues will be of Tolkien's wife, Edith, depicting a memory from the summer of 1917 when she danced for him in ...