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	-=[RedBookofWestmarch]=- J.R.R. Tolkien biography : tolkien bratt morgan bloemfontein christopher
		When he was 21, Tolkien contacted Edith, but they had grown apart and she had become engaged to someone else.
		It was when he was stationed at Hull that he and Edith went walking in the woods at nearby Roos, and there in a grove thick with hemlock Edith danced for him.
		He and Edith are buried together in a single grave in the Catholic section of Wolvercote cemetery in the northern suburbs of Oxford.
	www.geocities.com /redbookofwestmarch/bio.htm (1575 words)

	A Biography of JRR Tolkien
		It was at this boarding house, at the age of 16 that he would meet and fall in love with Edith Bratt.
		Tolkien and Edith were caught in affectionate circumstances - they bicycled together out to the countryside surrounding the city and had a picnic.
		Edith became somewhat of an obsession for Tolkien, and his guardian, Father Morgan, determined to separate the young couple.
	www.indepthinfo.com /tolkien/biography.shtml (1179 words)

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		At the age of sixteen Tolkien was living in a boarding house where he met Edith Bratt, another orphan, with whom he fell in love.
		That Edith Tolkien was the direct inspiration for Luthien, and for the tale of Beren and Luthien as a whole, is made clear in letters Tolkien wrote after her death in 1971.
		Tolkien died in 1973, and was buried in the same grave as Edith.
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	J.R.R. Tolkien
		There John meets the three year older Edith Bratt and falls in love with her.
		John still meets Edith whereupon he is forbidden to see her again.
		Edith leaves Birmingham in March and moves to Cheltenham.
	home.arcor.de /gisli.vogler/html/j_r_r__tolkien.html (521 words)

	J. R. R. Tolkien
		Tolkien and Edith are soon attracted to each other; Edith likes Tolkien's serious face and perfect manners, and Tolkien is also drawn by her engaging manners and artistic talents.
		Edith leaves for the halls of Mandos, aged 82.
		Tolkien is reunited with Edith beyond the confines of the world, aged 81.
	www.gslis.utexas.edu /~huangsc/LOTR/JRR/JRR.htm (1381 words)

	Banjo Paterson Team
		When John was 16, he met and fell in love with Edith Bratt, who was three years his senior.
		Not long after, John is commanded out to the front lines to fight in the war, but is soon returned home to England, suffering from shellshock, something that is probably on of the luckiest moments of his life, at least by though of his later writing career.
		In 1971, Edith Bratt dies after a short period of illness, and two years later, in 1973, John dies too, 81 years of age.
	bardsoffortune.4t.com /tolkienindex.htm (685 words)

	Calacirya \| Biography
		21 January: Edith Bratt is born in Gloucester.
		January: Ronald and Hilary move to new lodgings, but Ronald continues to see Edith and so is forbidden even to communicate with her.
		January: Edith is received into the Catholic Church.
	www.fortunecity.com /athena/emerald/236/biog.html (1066 words)

	J. R. R. Tolkien
		In his youth Tolkien met his great love, Edith Bratt -- at 19, she was older by three years.
		Edith died a short time after (November 22, 1971), and Tolkien moved back to Oxford, taking rooms provided for him at Merton College.
		He is interred, with Edith, in the Catholic section of Wolvercote Cemetery, in the northern suburbs of Oxford, England.
	www.nndb.com /people/511/000022445 (1641 words)

	J. R. R. Tolkien
		When he graduated in 1915, he married his childhood love, Edith Bratt and joined the british army and fought in the World War where, at the Battle of the Somme, he lost two of his three best friends in battle.
		Ronald and Edith had four children and they were the first to hear the tale about "The Hobbit", that later became published in 1937 by Sir Stanley Unwin.
		After his retirement, Ronald and Edith moved to Bournemouth but when Edith died in 1971, Ronald retuned to Oxford where he also died after a breif period of illness on Semptember 2 1973, leaving his greatest mythological work, "The Silmarillion" for editing by his son Christopher.
	www.truemetal.org /bardguardian/tolkien/tolkien.htm (357 words)

	Who Were the Real Heroes of Middle-Earth?
		Many Tolkien fans know that Beren and Luthien were a metaphor for the romantic relationship between Ronald Tolkien and Edith Bratt, but seldom is the impact of the reality of their romance upon Tolkien's stories taken up in full consideration by scholar or critic.
		Father Francis succeeded in separating Ronald and Edith for a period of three years, but when the young man reached his majority he wrote to Edith and assured her his feelings were as strong as ever.
		He had nurtured and cultivated his love for her so that it grew in secret, even though it had to be fed solely on his memories of their adolescent romance and a few photographs of her as a child...." (Carpenter, "Biography", p.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/tolkien/28563 (469 words)

	J.R.R. Tolkien
		Edith broke off the engagement and was engaged to Ronald when he was 22, after she became a Roman Catholic.
		Most of his letters written to her while he was away at training and the war have not been published due to their personal nature, but in some he sent her drafts and poems in preference to his literary friends.
		I have never called Edith Luthien - but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of The Silmarilion.
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	The Annotated Hobbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A secret relationship developed between Ronald and Edith, but once it was discovered by their guardians, Ronald was forbidden to see or to speak to Edith until he reached the age of twenty-one.
		Ronald and Edith were married on March 22, 1916, before Tolkien was sent to the front in France that summer.
		Tolkien spent some months in the trenches of the Somme, experiencing firsthand the horrors of World War I. Eventually he contracted trench fever, and he was returned to England, where he spent most of the remainder of the war.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=excerpt&titleNumber=693091 (4559 words)

	Arwen Evenstar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He was then commissioned in the Lancashire Fusiliers and served in the battle of the Somme where he lost three of his closest friends.
		Tolkien's wife-to-be Edith Bratt is born in Gloucester.
		Edith Tolkien dies after a short, but severe, illness attributed to an inflamed gall-bladder.
	www.arwenevenstar.com /tolkien/biography.html (979 words)

	English 495: Christianity
		He met his future wife, Edith Bratt, and by the summer of 1909 they were in love.
		They announced their engagement only after Tolkien had convinced Edith to convert to Catholicism, not an easy thing because she had been heavily and publicly active in her local Anglican Church.
		When Edith converted, she was promptly cut off by his family.
	www.csun.edu /~sk36711/WWW/tolkien/christianity.htm (1187 words)

	Writers' Window
		Edith replied back with answer claiming she was already engaged to someone else, Ronald travelled to see her.
		Bratt broke off her engagement with the other person and got engaged to Tolkien, but not before converting to a Roman Catholic.
		Edith gave birth to their last child, and their only girl, Priscilla in 1929.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /writers/display_story.html?name=JRRTOLKIEN1 (1592 words)

	CliffsNotes::The Hobbit:Book Summary and Study Guide
		When he was sixteen, he met Edith Bratt, three years his senior; the two were captivated with each other, but Fr.
		Edith and Tolkien were married in March 1916, and in June, he joined the war in France.
		He was engaged in active combat at the front, and several of his school friends were among the catastrophic losses the British suffered.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-171,pageNum-1.html (774 words)

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		Edith and JRRT were separated for a long time by Father Francis's decree that Tolkien should not see or even write to her until he had reached the age of 21 and was no longer under Father Francis's guardianship.
		Edith left the hated boarding house at Duchess road to live with friends in Cheltenham.
		They found themselves in the same place (like Ronald and Edith in the boarding-house), Maeglin was attracted to Idril, they were not permitted to marry, and Idril became engaged to another man (as Edith did during her and Ronald's enforced separation).
	neil.franklin.ch /Usenet/rec.arts.books.tolkien/20020609_She_was_my_Luthien (1670 words)

	PetersNet: Theresa Carson, Remembering J.R.R. Tolkien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Father Morgan opposed the courtship because Edith was not Catholic, lie made Ronald promise they wouldn't see each other until he reached his 21st birthday.
		And, reminiscent of the opposition Mabel had faced, Edith's choice angered and alienated the people she had come to know as family.
		He and Edith had four children, and the stories he told them became the foundation of the "Middle Earth" myths, tales and legends of "The Hobbit" (1937), "The Lord of the Rings"(1954-1955) and "The Silmarillion" (1977).
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	Tolkien Page
		Tolkien survived the Battle of the Somme, where two of his three closest friends were killed, but later that year he was struck down by trench fever and invalided back to England.
		He and Edith had four children and it was to them that he first told the tale of The Hobbit, published in 1937 by Sir Stanley Unwin.
		The Hobbit proved to be so successful that Sir Stanley was soon asking for a sequel: but it was not until 1954, when Tolkien was approaching retirement, that the first volume of his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, was published, and its terrific success took him by surprise.
	webhome.idirect.com /~korak/tolkien.htm (624 words)

	Chronology of J.R.R. Tolkien's life
		Edith Bratt leaves Birmingham Tolkien takes an active part in school debates and makes speeches in Gothic and Old English
		Ronald finds his sweetheart Edith Bratt The War I is declared Tolkien returns to Oxford to finish his degree
		Marries Edith Bratt in Warwick Goes to war in France Sees action on the Somme as second lieutenant In November is returned to England with shell shock
	www.lord-of-the-rings.org /tolkien/chronology.html (559 words)

	Arwen Undomiel Elelome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This was where John Ronald met Edith Bratt, who he later married.
		When Father Francis found out about John's affair with Edith, he found a new place for the brothers to stay, and denied John Ronald to see Edith at all.
		In 1971 Edith died and he moved back to Oxford.
	groups.msn.com /ArwenUndomielElelome/atributetothecreatorofmiddleearth.msnw (1890 words)

	One Ring to rule them all...Who was J.R.R. Tolkien? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Amongst the lodgers at Mrs Faulkner's boarding house was a young woman called Edith Bratt.
		Eventually Father Francis took a hand, and forbade Ronald to see or even correspond with Edith for three years, until he was 21.
		Here are found the first recorded versions of the wars against Morgoth, the siege and fall of Gondolin and Nargothrond, and the tales of Túrin and of Beren and Lúthien.
	www.kieben.com /ring/tolkien.html (3074 words)

	Biografía
		Ronald starts his first course in Oxford, and knows to Edith Bratt.
		Ronald commits with his girlfriend of the childhood, Edith Bratt.
		Edith Tolkien dies to the 82 years of age.
	orbita.starmedia.com /arloia/engbiogra.htm (352 words)

	J.R.R. Tolkien Detailed Biography
		After four months in and out of the trenches, he succumbed to "trench fever", a form of typhus-like infection common in the insanitary conditions, and in early November was sent back to England, where he spent the next month in hospital in Birmingham.
		So he changed addresses, his telephone number went ex-directory, and eventually he and Edith moved to Bournemouth, a pleasant but uninspiring South Coast resort (Hardy's "Sandbourne"), noted for the number of its elderly well-to-do residents.
		Meanwhile the cult, not just of Tolkien, but of the fantasy literature that he had revived, if not actually inspired (to his dismay), was really taking off - but that is another story, to be told in another place.
	radio.weblogs.com /0116391/stories/2002/11/22/jrrTolkienDetailedBiography.html (3409 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of J.R.R. Tolkien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tolkien survived the Battle of the Somme, where two of his three closest friends were killed, but later that year he was struck down by trench fever and sent back to England.
		He and Edith had four children and it was for them that Tolkien first told the tale of The Hobbit, published in 1937 by Sir Stanley Unwin.
		The Hobbit proved to be so successful that Sir Stanley was soon asking for a sequel: but it was not until 1954, when Tolkien was approaching retirement, that he the first volume of his great masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, was published, and its terrific success took him by surprise.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_j_tolkien.html (501 words)

	SparkNotes: The Fellowship of the Rings: Context
		Faulkner’s house was a nineteen-year-old girl named Edith Bratt, with whom the sixteen-year-old Ronald struck up a friendship and then a romance.
		In 1911, Ronald was admitted to Exeter College, Oxford, where he specialized in the classics and developed a special passion for philology, the study and comparison of languages.
		The next year, it became clear that Tolkien would have to embark for France to fight in World War I. He and Edith married before he left for the front.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/fellowship/context.html (1462 words)

	J.R.R. Tolkien :: Fact Sheet
		Met Edith, three years his senior, when he was sixteen
		His guardian banned him from seeing Edith until he had turned twenty-one (he was eighteen when the ban was enacted)
		Tolkien and his wife are buried in the same grave.
	www.arwen-undomiel.com /tolkien/fact_sheet.html (321 words)

	Bio Of JRR. Tolkien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He was then assigned to the Lancashire Fusiliers and sent to France, where he saw some action in Somme as second Lieutenant, and later returned to England suffering from shell shock.
		J.R.R. Tolkien died on September 2, 1973 at the age of eighty-one in a private hospital in Bournemouth, leaving his great mythological work, The Silmarillion, to be edited by his son, Christopher.
		Edith, Tolkien's wife, died in 1971 and he moved back to Oxford where he lived in Merton accomodation here at 21 Merton St.
	www3.telus.net /hobbit/tolkien/life (1884 words)

	JRR Tolkien biography - SF/Fantasy Books
		When he was 16, Tolkien began a relationship with 19 year old Edith Bratt but Father Francis forbade the relationship until Tolkien turned 21.
		In 1916 he married Edith before leaving to serve in France.
		Within a year he contracted “trench fever,” a common illness in the unsanitary conditions, and was sent home.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art23845.asp (476 words)

	Biography and Essays on Tolkien
		He excelled at his studies, and in particular philology (the study of the roots of words and language).
		At the age of sixteen, he met Edith Bratt, the woman he would one day marry.
		Tolkien had made friends with a group of several young men who shared his love of ancient epics and sagas, and together formed one of his first few clubs to celebrate this shared passion.
	www.timelineuniverse.net /MiddleEarth/OnTolkien.htm (4849 words)

	J. R. R. Tolkien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His mother died at the age of 12, and he was sent to live with an aunt, then to a boarding house.
		At the age of 16, he developed a friendship with one of the boarders, Edith Bratt.
		He later returned to Oxford for a first class degree, and then was eventually sent out for active duty in World War I. He finally married his longtime lover, Edith, in 1916 and had 3 sons and one daughter.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/tolkien_j_r_r.htm (430 words)

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