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28 de feb. de 2024 · Edith was also an orphan, but that was where any similarity between her and the Tolkien brothers, with whom she’d be sharing this domestic space in the years to come, ended. While the boys came from a distinguished British lineage and benefited from a fine childhood education, she was the illegitimate daughter of Frances Bratt of Gloucester.
Edith Mary Tolkien (Gloucester, Gloucestershire; 21 de enero de 1889 – Bournemouth, Dorset; 29 de noviembre de 1973), de soltera Edith Mary Bratt, fue la esposa del escritor británico J. R. R. Tolkien y la inspiración para su personaje Lúthien Tinúviel, una princesa élfica y «la más bella entre los hijos de Ilúvatar».
Edith Mary Tolkien ( Gloucester, Gloucestershire; 21 de enero de 1889 – Bournemouth, Dorset; 29 de noviembre de 1971 ), de soltera Edith Mary Bratt, fue la esposa del escritor británico J. R. R. Tolkien y la inspiración para su personaje Lúthien Tinúviel, una princesa élfica y «la más bella entre los hijos de Ilúvatar ».
Edith Mary Tolkien ( de soltera Bratt; 21 de enero de 1889 – 29 de noviembre de 1971) fue una inglesa conocida como esposa del novelista J. R. R. Tolkien. Ella fue la inspiración para sus personajes ficticios de la Tierra Media, Lúthien Tinúviel y Arwen Undómiel.
19 de abr. de 2024 · When Tolkien was living at 37 Duchess Road, Edgbaston, Edith was a young female lodger who lived in the bedroom beneath Tolkien and his brother Hilary. At the time Tolkien was 16 and Edith was 19. They quickly became close but when Tolkien's guardian Francis Xavier Morgan
9 de ago. de 1973 · Edith Tolkien died on 28 November, 1971, at the age of eighty-two, and Tolkien had the name Lúthien engraved on the stone at Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford. When Tolkien died 21 months later of pneumonia on 2 September, 1973, at the age of 81, he was buried in the same grave, with Beren added to his name, so that the engraving now reads: Edith ...
Initially Tolkien’s guardian had tried to extinguish their youthful romance. Fearing that a relationship would distract Tolkien from his studies, he had banned any contact between them for three years. As soon as Tolkien reached his twenty-first birthday and the prohibition was lifted, he wrote to Edith and they became engaged within a week.
