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   In 1904, when J. R. R. Tolkien was 12, his mother died of acute diabetes at Fern Cottage in Rednal, which she was renting. She was then about 34 years of age, about as old as a person with diabetes mellitus type 1 could survive without treatment—insulin would not be discovered until 1921, two decades later. Nine years after her death, Tolkien ...

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   Mabel Tolkien (née Suffield; 1870 – 14 November 1904) was the mother of J. R. R. Tolkien. Her parents, John Suffield and Emily Jane Sparrow, lived in Stirling Road, Birmingham and owned a shop in the city centre.

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   Oct 9, 2024 · Unfortunately, his mother's health began to deteriorate again and she died on 14 November after six days in a diabetic coma leaving the 10 and 12 year old, Hilary and Ronald. During his subsequent orphanhood, he was under the guardianship of Francis Xavier Morgan of the Birmingham Oratory.

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   May 8, 2019 · When his mother died of complications from type 1 diabetes in 1904, Tolkien and Hilary were left orphaned. Like in the movie, Father Francis Xavier Morgan, a local priest who had been caring for Mabel, assumed legal guardianship of J.R.R. and his brother, making sure they received a good education.

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   6 days ago · (photo: Wikimedia Commons) In a letter to his own son J.R.R. Tolkien wrote that his mother was a ‘gifted lady of great beauty and wit, greatly stricken by God with grief and suffering who died in youth of a disease hastened by persecution of her faith.’

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   Aug 23, 2024 · Mabel Tolkien (née Suffield, January 1870 - 14 November 1904) was the mother of J.R.R. Tolkien and Hilary Tolkien, being the wife of Arthur Reuel Tolkien. She was the child of John and Emily Suffield, along with six other siblings.

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   What happened to Tolkien's parents?

   • Tolkien, then just three-years-old, lived in near poverty with his mother Mabel and younger brother Hilary. They had first moved in with Mabel's parents in Birmingham and eventually ended up renting Fern Cottage in Rednal. When his mother died of complications from type 1 diabetes in 1904, Tolkien and Hilary were left orphaned.

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   Who was Mabel Tolkien?

   • Mabel Tolkien (née Suffield, January 1870 - 14 November 1904) was the mother of J.R.R. Tolkien and Hilary Tolkien, being the wife of Arthur Reuel Tolkien. She was...

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   Who was Mabel Tolkien's father?

   • Few mourned Mabel Tolkien. History would not have marked her life or passing at all had not her example of steadfastness to her faith inspired her son, who would grow up to become a literary giant. Her father, John Suffield, was a merchant married to Emily Sparrow. Together, they had seven children and ran a shop in Birmingham.

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   Who is Michael Tolkien?

   • Michael George Reuel Tolkien (born 1943) is a British poet. He is the grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien, being the eldest son of Michael H. R. Tolkien. Michael Tolkien was educated at The Oratory School in Oxford and then Ampleforth College. He studied English and Classics at St Andrews University and later a B.Phil. at Oxford.

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   How did Tolkien die?

   • When Tolkien died 21 months later of pneumonia on 2 September 1973, at the age of 81, he was buried in the same grave, with Beren added to his name, so that the engraving now reads: It has beautiful hands and ears (very long fingers) very light hair, ‘Tolkien’ eyes and very distinctly a ‘Suffield’ mouth.

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   What happened to Mabel Tolkien's son?

   • The families essentially cut off the young widow whose health was fading but she persisted with the help of a priest, Father Francis Xavier Morgan, who became a father figure to the boys. On Nov. 14, 1904, Mabel passed away from diabetes. Her son J.R.R. Tolkien was 12 years old.

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8. www.bustle.com › p › what-happened-to-jrr-tolkiensWhat Happened To J.R.R. Tolkien’s Children? They All Dealt ...

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   May 9, 2019 · How J.R.R. Tolkien’s Children Dealt With Their Legendary Father’s Legacy. The biopic Tolkien, out May 10, depicts the famous author's life, but only a specific segment of it — his early life...