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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.
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.
Jul 29, 2024 · When he was three, during a visit home to see his English family with his mother and his younger brother Hilary, his father – who had planned to join them – unexpectedly died of rheumatic fever.
Like Ronald she was an orphan (her mother died when she was 14, and her father, who she never knew, died when she was two), and was raised by a guardian. Edith and Ronald met when they both lived in the same boarding house; he was 16 and she was 19.
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.’
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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Jan 3, 2022 · His father died when he was three, prompting the family to move to England. His mother died eight years later, when J. R. R. was only 12. The orphaned brothers were placed in the care of a...
