Tolkien writes the poem ‘A Song of Aryador’ while stationed in Staffordshire.įinal meeting of all four main members of the T.C.B.S. He obtains a commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers and trains in Bedford and Staffordshire. Tolkien gains a First Class Honours degree. The poems ‘You & Me and the Cottage of Lost Play’ and ‘Kôr’ are written. Tolkien revises the poem later called ‘The Horns of Ylmir’. Tolkien begins to write The Story of Kullervo. Tolkien writes his first identifiable “Middle-earth” fragment ‘The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star’. Tolkien and Edith become betrothed after she is received into the Catholic Church. One of the aunts is hit by a car and dies. Tolkien is paid to accompany two Mexican boys and their aunts to Paris and Dinard. Tolkien writes to Edith on his 21st birthday, and soon after they become engaged. Tolkien becomes a member of the Exeter College Essay Club. Tolkien visits Switzerland before starting university. Tolkien becomes school librarian, and the T.C.B.S. Tolkien’s poem ‘The Battle of the Eastern Field’ is printed in the King Edward’s School Chronicle. Tolkien obtains a scholarship at Oxford’s Exeter College. Tolkien speaks in his school debating society deploring the occurrence of the Norman Conquest. The Tolkien brothers move to new lodgings where Ronald’s romance with Edith continues until Father Francis forbids him to communicate with her. Tolkien meets Edith Bratt, another lodger.įather Francis Morgan discovers the romance between Tolkien and Edith. The boys move to Duchess Road and live with Mrs. Tolkien probably invents his private language ‘Naffarin’ based on Spanish and Latin. Ronald and his brother Hilary become wards of Father Morgan, a priest at the Birmingham Oratory.Īunt Beatrice accepts the boys into her home in Stirling Road. Mabel is diagnosed with diabetes, and is hospitalised for a few weeks. Tolkien attends King Edward’s School again, this time on a scholarship. The boys are enrolled at St Philip’s Grammar School, but later in the year Ronald is educated at home. The Tolkiens move to Edgbaston, Birmingham. Mabel and her boys move to King’s Heath, another suburb of Birmingham. Tolkien attends King Edward’s School, Birmingham as a fee-paying student, but he does not attend in December. Mabel is accepted into the Roman Catholic Church.
Mabel Tolkien rents a cottage near Sarehole Mill, Moseley, on the outskirts of Birmingham. Mabel Tolkien returns to England with her two boys.
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and Academic Careerīirth of Arthur Reuel Tolkien, Tolkien’s father, in Birmingham.īirth of Mabel Suffield, Tolkien’s mother, in Birmingham.īirth of Edith Mary Bratt, Tolkien’s future wife, in Gloucester.Īrthur Tolkien and Mabel Suffield get married in Cape Town Cathedral.īirth of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now part of South Africa).īirth of Tolkien’s younger brother, Hilary.
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