![]() ![]() Father Morgen made John promise not to see Edith, and John reluctantly agreed to his request. ![]() ![]() On finding out about this romance, his guardian Father Francis Morgan, prohibited John from seeing Edith until he was 21 and no longer under his care. This was partly due to falling in love with his childhood sweetheart Edith. He enjoyed studying languages especially Greek, Anglo Saxon, and later at Oxford, Finnish.Īlthough a scholar at King Edward VI school, he initially failed to win a scholarship to Oxford. Tolkien was an excellent scholar, with an unusually specialised interest in languages. After his mother’s passing, he was brought up by the family’s Catholic priest, Father Francis Morgen. In 1904, when John was just 12, his mother Mabel died from diabetes leaving a profound mark on him and his brother. His early childhood was, by all accounts, a happy one he was brought up in the Warwickshire countryside (many regard this idealised upbringing as the basis for the Shire in Lord of the Rings). After three years in South Africa, he returned to England with his Mother Mabel unfortunately, his father died one year later, leaving him with little memory of his father. Tolkien was born in 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa. ![]()
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