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- Tolkien finds suitable rented rooms in Headingley, Leeds for his family, who move up from Oxford to join him a few weeks later. Tolkien may have begun an alliterative poetic version of The Children of Húrin once he was settled in Leeds.
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The Tolkien family is an English family of German descent whose best-known member is J. R. R. Tolkien, Oxford academic and author of the fantasy books The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
Mar 1, 2022 · 1. Sarehole and Hobbiton. Sarehole Mill in Hall Green, Birmingham helped inspire the peaceful Shire. Tolkien spent some of his youth in Sarehole, and this charming little area not too far from Birmingham inspired one of the most idyllic locations in Middle-Earth, Hobbiton, a small village, The Shire.
Sep 18, 2024 · The local landowning family near Stonyhurst, meanwhile, were called the Shireburns – and the similarly named River Shirebourne appears in Tolkien's geography of Middle-earth.
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. The Tolkien name is attested there since the 16th century.
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...
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During this time he married his longtime sweetheart, Edith Bratt, and served for a short time on the Western Front with the Lancashire Fusiliers (a regiment in the British army that used an older-style musket) during World War I (1914–18), when Germany led forces against much of Europe and America).
Sep 16, 2022 · The spectacular landscapes of Switzerland's Lauterbrunnen Valley inspired the writer J.R.R. Tolkien. Here's what it was like for one writer to visit.
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