South Africa. His parents were Arthur and Mabel Tolkien. Hilary John’s brother

was born when he was 3. Tolkien probably didn’t remember his town of birth very

well because at the age of four his father died so they moved to the West Midlands

in England. This was a mixture of industrial and rural area. Shortly after that they

moved to more pleasant Birmingham suburb of Edgebaston. Tolkien’s family didn’t

live well but they were not in poverty.

In 1904, something tragic happened, Mabel Tolkien was diagnosed with

diabetes which was incurable. She died later on that year which left her two boys

orphaned. The family’s Catholic minister looked after the boys, but they were

the literature world with the creation of a new genre of fantasy literature.(who was

up his own languages. When Tolkien was sixteen he became close with a friend

Edith Bratt. His minister, Father Francis found out about this and disallowed him

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