![]() ![]() ![]() The boys move to Duchess Road and live with Mrs. Tolkien probably invents his private language ‘Naffarin’ based on Spanish and Latin. Ronald and his brother Hilary become wards of Father Morgan, a priest at the Birmingham Oratory.Īunt Beatrice accepts the boys into her home in Stirling Road. Mabel is diagnosed with diabetes, and is hospitalised for a few weeks. Tolkien attends King Edward’s School again, this time on a scholarship. The boys are enrolled at St Philip’s Grammar School, but later in the year Ronald is educated at home. The Tolkiens move to Edgbaston, Birmingham. Mabel and her boys move to King’s Heath, another suburb of Birmingham. ![]() Tolkien attends King Edward’s School, Birmingham as a fee-paying student, but he does not attend in December. Mabel is accepted into the Roman Catholic Church. Mabel Tolkien rents a cottage near Sarehole Mill, Moseley, on the outskirts of Birmingham. Mabel Tolkien returns to England with her two boys. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and Academic Careerīirth of Arthur Reuel Tolkien, Tolkien’s father, in Birmingham.īirth of Mabel Suffield, Tolkien’s mother, in Birmingham.īirth of Edith Mary Bratt, Tolkien’s future wife, in Gloucester.Īrthur Tolkien and Mabel Suffield get married in Cape Town Cathedral.īirth of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now part of South Africa).īirth of Tolkien’s younger brother, Hilary. ![]()
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