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Edith Mary Tolkien (née Bratt; 21 January 1889 – 29 November 1971) was an Englishwoman known as the wife of the novelist J. R. R. Tolkien. She was the inspiration for his fictional Middle-earth characters Lúthien Tinúviel and Arwen Undómiel.
Apr 19, 2024 · Edith Mary Tolkien (née Bratt) (January 21, 1889 – November 29, 1971) was the daughter of Frances Bratt and Alfred Frederick Warrilow. She would become J.R.R. Tolkien...
May 3, 2019 · The new movie "Tolkien" tells the story of Edith and JRR Tolkien's relationship cinematically, but their real love story is actually just as romantic.
Tolkien began the tale in 1917, inspired to create Luthien after seeing Edith dancing and singing in a hemlock grove. However, Luthien and Beren’s love story finds other, perhaps unwitting echoes, in Tolkien’s and Edith’s relationship – which saw the couple undergo their trials and tests before they too could have their own happily ever after.
Edith Mary Tolkien (January 21, 1889 – 29 November 29, 1971; née Bratt) was the wife of J.R.R. Tolkien. She became inspiration for the Elf character Lúthien Tinúviel. Edith Bratt was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
When he was sixteen years old, J.R.R. Tolkien met Edith Mary Bratt, a woman three years his senior. They were introduced after he moved into a boarding house where she lived in Edgbaston. Edith’s mother died when she was fourteen years old and her guardian found her a place there.
Feb 28, 2024 · What was the connection between Lúthien – the mythological image of female perfection which Tolkien himself created – and his wife Edith? And what caused their three-year separation, which almost ended in her marrying someone else?
