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  1. Oct 27, 2017 · Colm Meaney has been cast as Father Francis Morgan. Father Francis was an important figure in Tolkien’s early life, as he was the guardian of the Tolkien brothers after their mother died. Colm Meaney will be familiar to fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

  2. Jun 19, 2021 · Their mother is Joan Tolkien, 76, JRR Tolkien’s granddaugh­ter, who now lives in Oxford; their father, Hugh Baker, 81, lives in Chester. They split up when Royd was a teenager, and he took the name of Tolkien.

  3. 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. The Suffield family had a business in a building called Lamb House since 1812.

  4. 6 days ago · 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.’

  5. Oct 27, 2016 · 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.

  6. 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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  8. Apr 17, 2019 · Tolkien’s bank-manager father died in South Africa when he was just four years old. His mother, Mabel, took him and his younger brother, Hilary, to live first in a village just outside Birmingham and then in the city itself.