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Apr 19, 2024 · Edith Tolkien died on 29 November 1971 at the age of 82 and was buried in Wolvercote Cemetery. J.R.R. Tolkien never referred to Edith as Lúthien, but he considered her as such, so he asked that the name Lúthien be inscribed on her grave. [5]
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Edith Bratt was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Her mother, Frances Bratt, was the unmarried daughter of a shoe and bootmaker. Edith was raised in Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham, by her mother and her cousin. When Edith was 14 her mother died and she was sent to live at the Dresden House boarding school in Evesham. Here she developed her love for the piano. Her guardian, solicitor Stephen Gateley, had her stay at Mrs. Faulkner's boarding house at 37 Duchess Road, Birmingham.
Edith met Ronald Tolkien (i.e. "John Ronald Reuel") in early 1908, when he and his brother moved into 37 Duchess Road. At this time, Tolkien was 16 years old and Edith 19, and she lived in the floor below his. When their relationship began and became known to Tolkien's guardian, Fr. Francis Xavier Morgan, he viewed Edith as a distraction to Tolkien's schoolwork, and was bothered that she was Anglican. He forbade them to meet again until Tolkien turned 21. Tolkien obeyed Father Morgan, but on the evening of Tolkien's 21st birthday he wrote a letter to Edith asking her to marry him. She replied that she was already engaged, but implied that she did so because she thought Tolkien had forgotten her. Tolkien journeyed to Cheltenham, where he and Edith met at the railway station. She returned her ring and later would announce that she was engaged to Tolkien.
Soon after Tolkien's and Edith's wedding, Tolkien embarked on a course at the British Army signals school at Otley. In order to be closer to John she moved into a cottage in the village of Great Haywood, with her cousin Jennie Grove. Tolkien was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Lancashire Fusiliers, then transferred to the 11th (Service) Battalion with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and arrived in France on June 4, 1916. When Tolkien was serving in the Battle of the Somme it was very hard for Edith, for she feared that any knock on the door might carry news of her husbands death. In order to get around the British Army's postal censorship, Tolkien sent coded letters to Edith in order for her to track his movements on the Western Front.
A biography of Edith's life until 1917 is given in The Gallant Edith Bratt, published in 2021, of the Cormarë Series.
In the 2019 film Tolkien, a young Edith Tolkien is portrayed by English-American actress Lily Collins.
1.Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, pg. 38
2.The Tolkien Family Album, pg. 27
3.Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, pgs. 38-39
4.John Garth, Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth, pg. 12
5.Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, pgs. 67-69)
6.John Garth, Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth, pgs. 134 & 231
Shortly after her death in 1971, Tolkien wrote a letter to his son about her that I find tragically beautiful: I never called Edith Lúthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion. It was first conceived in a small woodland glade filled with hemlocks at Roos in Yorkshire (where I was for a ...
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Feb 28, 2024 · The Hebrew edition of Beren and Lúthien, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, Keter Books. Edith was Tolkien’s Luthien. She was also the inspiration for the character. When she passed away, two years before him, he illustrated this with an incomparably beautiful gesture of love.
During my senior year of high school I took a Brit Lit class, and for the big essay I chose to write about Tolkien and his wife, and how the story of Luthien choosing to become a mortal to be with Beren was a metaphor for Edith leaving the Church of England to become a Catholic to be with Tolkien. Edit: meant to say high school, not college
Edith Tolkien. Edith was born in Gloucester on the 21st January 1889, the illegitimate daughter of Frances Bratt. Her mother had never married, and never named the father on the birth certificate though she did keep a photograph of him, and his identity was known to the Bratt family. It is not known whether Edith ever knew her father’s name.
Oct 27, 2016 · Death of Edith Tolkien. 1 January 1972: Tolkien is awarded a CBE in the New Year’s honours list. 13 March 1972: Tolkien moves to rooms in 21 Merton Street, Oxford. 28 March 1972: Tolkien receives his CBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace. 3 June 1972: He is awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Oxford University. 27 June 1972
