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The Tolkien family originated in the East Prussian town Kreuzburg near Königsberg, where the Tolkien name is attested since the 16th century. The verified paternal line of J. R. R. Tolkien starts with Michel Tolkien, born around 1620 in Kreuzburg.
May 9, 2019 · Tolkien eventually married Edith, as the film shows, and the two had four children: John Francis, Michael Hilary (named after Tolkien's brother Hilary), Christopher John, and Priscilla Mary Anne.
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Jul 9, 2024 · Research conducted by Ryszard Derdziński shows that the Tolkien family actually had its roots in Gdańsk (German form Danzig) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and earlier in Kreuzburg, East Prussia, but had been living in England since 1770.
Feb 5, 2024 · By then the family had moved to King’s Heath, where the house backed onto a railway line — young Ronald’s developing linguistic imagination was engaged by the sight of coal trucks going to and from South Wales bearing destinations like” Nantyglo”,” Penrhiwceiber” and “Senghenydd”.
Early Life. 1857. Birth of Arthur Reuel Tolkien, Tolkien’s father, in Birmingham. 1870. Birth of Mabel Suffield, Tolkien’s mother, in Birmingham. 21 January 1889. Birth of Edith Mary Bratt, Tolkien’s future wife, in Gloucester. 16 April 1891. Arthur Tolkien and Mabel Suffield get married in Cape Town Cathedral.
Aug 24, 2022 · For Tolkien, born in 1892, the obsession began in childhood, when he read Andrew Lang's Red Fairy Book and fell in love with the story of Sigurd the dragon-slayer.
The Tolkien family originated in the East Prussian town of Kreuzburg near Königsberg, which had been founded during the medieval German eastward expansion, where his earliest-known paternal ancestor, Michel Tolkien, was born around 1620.
