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| The Tolkien's Birmingham pages |
| The Tolkien Society |
| Taruithorn, the Oxford Tolkien Society |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd of January 1892 in Bloemfontein in South Africa. In 1895 his mother brought him and his brother to England for a holiday, during which his father died. He was brought up in Birmingham by his mother, who became a Roman Catholic. He started school at King Edward's in 1900. In 1904 his mother died. In one of the houses he and his brother lodged in after that, he met Edith Bratt who was also an orphan, whom he married later, in 1916. He finished school in 1911 and was accepted by Exeter College, Oxford.