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Arwen's story is one of both incredible joy, and overwhelming sadness. While she would live many long years with those she loved, she would one day face the...
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- Nerd of the Rings
Tolkien's End. Check out our new-ish channel Highlight History: / @highlighthistory In this video we discuss the life and death of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, as well as a slew of interesting...
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Dr Stuart Lee, lecturer in the Faculty of English and an expert on J.R.R. Tolkien, explains what we can learn about the Lord of the Rings author from 90 minu...
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May 8, 2019 · Yes. The true story behind the Tolkien movie confirms that two of the four members of the Tea Club, Barrovian Society were killed in the Great War. This includes artist Robert 'R.Q.' Gilson and poet Geoffrey 'G.B.' Smith. Gilson was killed by a shell burst on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916.
- Was Tolkien Born in Africa and Later Orphaned?
- Did Tolkien Form A Literary Society While in School?
- What Were The Circumstances Under Which Tolkien Fell in Love with Edith Bratt?
- What Were Tolkien’s Experiences Fighting in WWI and The Battle of The Somme?
- Did Tolkien Rekindle His Relationship with Bratt After Returning from War?
- When Did Tolkien Write The Hobbit, and What Inspired Him to Write It?
Yes. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on Jan. 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, which was then part of the Orange Free State before it was later annexed by the British, eventually becoming part of South Africa. Tolkien’s parents were British — his father Arthur Reuel Tolkien was a bank manager, and his mother Mabel Suffield Tolkien had been a missionary i...
In the film, Tolkien enters school and befriends the headmaster’s son as well as a group of literary young men who meet for tea to discuss art and ideas after classes. That “fellowship” helps spur Tolkien’s passion for literature and languages. The real Tolkien did form a literary society with a group of school friends, just like in the movie. Dubb...
The film also hews closely to the general facts of Tolkien’s relationship with Edith Bratt. As in the movie, Bratt and Tolkien lived in the same boarding house, and when Tolkien was 16 and Bratt 19, they began dating. Tolkien’s guardian, Father Francis, eventually told Tolkien that he was forbidden to communicate with Bratt until he was 21, an orde...
In the movie, Tolkien is shown stumbling through the trenches at the Somme, trying desperately to find one of his boyhood friends. Though the specific events of the battle were likely fictionalized in the film, Tolkien did in fact serve on the western front and fight in the Battle of the Somme. Just as in Tolkien, two of the four members of the T.C...
In the film, Tolkien and Bratt encounter each other again just before Tolkien is sent to join the fighting on the western front. When he returns, waking up in a hospital in England, he finds Bratt waiting for him. The real story played out a bit differently. According to the Tolkien Society, the young Tolkien actually wrote to Bratt on his 21st bir...
After returning from the war, Tolkien eventually became a professor at Oxford, where he gave lectures on philology. At the end of the movie, the professor sits down to begin writing what would become his signature fantasy series. Tolkien actually did write The Hobbit while a professor at Oxford, though his real impetus for beginning the project may...
May 10, 2019 · Tolkien is a dramatized account of the true story of J.R.R. Tolkien, linguist and writer most famous for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - but how accurate is it to real life, and what happened next? Every biopic has to strike a careful balance between truth and fiction.
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He died on 2nd September 1973, aged eighty-one, while visiting friends in Bournemouth and is buried in Oxford alongside his beloved wife Edith. Their gravestone is marked with the additional names, Beren and Lúthien, whose love defeated the Dark Lord and overcame death itself in the First Age of Middle-earth.
