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May 8, 2019 · Questioning the Story: Did J.R.R. Tolkien's mother, Mabel, introduce him to mythology? Yes. The true story behind the Tolkien movie reveals that prior to her death, Mabel Tolkien taught her two children at home.
Priscilla, who was a social worker and probation officer until her retirement, according to the Telegraph, had a less contentious relationship with Tolkien fandom than her eldest brother.
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.
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.’
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 ...
Jul 29, 2024 · Being the breadwinner, his sudden death rendered the family destitute. His mother, Mabel, decided to stay in the UK, settling in a cheap cottage in the village of Sarehole, near Birmingham.
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Dec 29, 2022 · Aragorn's father Arathorn, a hardened warrior, fell in love with Gilraen the Fair, another distant descendant of Aranarth. Her father Dírhael objected on the grounds that Gilraen was too young (paralleling Tolkien's real-life courtship of his own wife).
