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30 de set. de 2024 · The poem in full is deeply moving: written first in 1916, when Tolkien was on the front lines in France, it is in fact a prayer in poetic form, envisioning Tolkien and his fellow soldiers praying “our small prayers kneeling without light” and asking Mary to comfort his wife Edith, whom he knows is fearful and unhappy.
6 de out. de 2024 · Em 1914, começou a Primeira Guerra Mundial, Tolkien ficou noivo de Edith Bratt. No ano seguinte, recebeu, com honras, o diploma de licenciatura em Literatura em Língua Inglesa. A graduação e os méritos não o libertaram da convocatória militar e, em 1916, depois de casar-se, foi chamado para a guerra.
4 de out. de 2024 · Just one floor below the brothers lived a young lady, 2 and a half years older than John, named Edith Bratt, a fellow resident who’d been orphaned at age 14. Upon meeting, they instantly grew close.
9 de out. de 2024 · While living at 37 Duchess Road, Tolkien met and fell in love with Edith Mary Bratt, three years his senior, at the age of sixteen. After learning of their relationship, Father Francis forbade him from meeting, talking, or even corresponding with her until he was twenty-one.
21 de set. de 2024 · He married Edith Bratt in 1916, whom he had met when he was 16 and she was 19. Their love story inspired the characters of Beren and Lúthien in his Middle-earth legendarium. The couple had four children: John, Michael , Christopher, and Priscilla.
27 de set. de 2024 · Four years later Tolkien fell in love with another orphan, Edith Bratt, who would inspire his fictional character Lúthien Tinúviel. His guardian, however, disapproved, and not until his 21st birthday could Tolkien ask Edith to marry him.
23 de set. de 2024 · Edith Bratt was three years older than JRR Tolkien. They were happily married, and remained devoted to each other until her death in 1971. Tolkien's place in the English class system, and his upbringing, meant that he did not know many women, and idolised the few women in his life.
