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1892<\/h2>\n

Born in Bloemfontein<\/h3>\n

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is born to English parents in Bloemfontein (Orange Free State, now in South Africa). His father, Arthur Reuel Tolkien, is the manager of the Bank of Africa.<\/p>\n

3 January<\/p>\n

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1894<\/h2>\n

Brother is born<\/h3>\n

Hilary Arthur Reuel Tolkien is born in Bloemfontein.<\/p>\n

17 February<\/p>\n

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1895<\/h2>\n

Visits England<\/h3>\n

Arrives in England with his mother Mabel and his younger brother Hilary to visit family. Mabel had not been home for four years and it was the boys\u2019 first visit to England.<\/p>\n

April<\/p>\n

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1896<\/h2>\n

Father dies<\/h3>\n

Arthur Reuel Tolkien planned to join his family in England at the end of their extended visit and travel back to South Africa with them. Unexpectedly he falls ill with rheumatic fever and dies in Bloemfontein, aged thirty-eight.<\/p>\n

15 February<\/p>\n

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1896-1900<\/h2>\n

Sarehole<\/h3>\n

Mabel decides to remain in England. She and her two young sons move to the village of Sarehole, near Birmingham where she educates the boys at home.<\/p>\n

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1900<\/p>\n

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1900<\/h2>\n

Mother converts to Catholicism<\/h3>\n

Mabel Tolkien is received into the Catholic Church against the wishes of her family.<\/p>\n

June<\/p>\n

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1900<\/h2>\n

School-years in Birmingham<\/h3>\n

Mabel and her children move closer to King Edward\u2019s School in Birmingham, where her eldest son is now a pupil.<\/p>\n

September<\/p>\n

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1904<\/h2>\n

Mother dies<\/h3>\n

Mabel Tolkien dies of diabetes, aged thirty-four. Father Francis Morgan, a Catholic priest, becomes the boys\u2019 guardian.<\/p>\n

14 November<\/p>\n

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1908<\/h2>\n

Meets Edith Bratt<\/h3>\n

Moves to a new lodging house in Duchess Road, Edgbaston, with his brother Hilary. They meet fellow lodger, Edith Bratt, who is also an orphan.<\/p>\n

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1910<\/p>\n

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1909-1915<\/h2>\n

Invents languages: Qenya<\/h3>\n

After Nevbosh, after the Book of the Foxrook (1909), he keeps on inventing new languages such as Qenya: after new developments in 1914, the language is recorded in the 1915 Qenyaqetsa.<\/p>\n

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1910<\/h2>\n

Discovers sagas & the Kalevala<\/em><\/h3>\n

Reads the Icelandic sagas and the Finnish Kalevala<\/em> in translation and discovers a love of northern myths and legends.<\/p>\n

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1910-1916<\/h2>\n

Writes poetry<\/h3>\n

He writes many poems; some like \u2018The Voyage of \u00c9arendel the Evening Star, (Sep 1914) are related to his burgeoning mythology. A volume of poetry is rejected by the publisher, Sidgwick and Jackson, in 1916.<\/p>\n

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1911<\/h2>\n

Foundation of the T.C.B.S.<\/h3>\n

Becomes part of the Tea Club & Barrovian Society (T.C.B.S.), a group formed at school with his friends Chris Wiseman, Rob Gilson and Geoffrey Smith. The four young men, each with their different individual talents, aim to make the world a better place and to create, \u2018beauty in daily life.\u2019<\/p>\n

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1911<\/h2>\n

Holiday in Switzerland<\/h3>\n

During the summer, before starting at university, he goes on a walking tour in the Swiss Alps, with a group that includes his brother Hilary and his aunt Jane Neave. Their experiences will inspire the mountain episodes in The Hobbit<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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1911-1915<\/h2>\n

Student in Oxford<\/h3>\n

Studies Classics at Exeter College, Oxford for two years before changing to the English course so that he can pursue his interests in Germanic philology, and Old and Middle English in particular.<\/p>\n

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1912<\/h2>\n

\u2018The Bloodhound, the Chef and the Suffragette\u2019<\/h3>\n

Writes (and plays the lead role in) the comic play, \u2018The Bloodhound, the Chef and the Suffragette\u2019, as part of family festivities with his Incledon cousins in Barnt Green, Worcestershire.<\/p>\n

Christmas<\/p>\n

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1913<\/h2>\n

Trip to France<\/h3>\n

Employed as a tutor for three Catholic Mexican boys, he accompanies them to Paris and Brittany with their two aunts. One of the aunts is knocked down and killed by a car.<\/p>\n

July-August<\/p>\n

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1914<\/h2>\n

\u2018The Story of Kullervo\u2019<\/h3>\n

Rewrites the story of Kullervo from the Kalevala<\/em>. Influenced by William Morris, the story is a mixture of prose and poetry.<\/p>\n

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1915<\/h2>\n

Graduates<\/h3>\n

Completes his studies and is awarded a first class honours degree in English.<\/p>\n

June<\/p>\n

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1915<\/h2>\n

Enlists in army<\/h3>\n

Enlists as an officer in the Lancashire Fusiliers, and by May 1916 completes specialist training in signalling. The T.C.B.S. meet for what will be the last time in Lichfield in September.<\/p>\n

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1916<\/h2>\n

Wedding<\/h3>\n

Marries Edith Bratt in St Mary\u2019s Catholic church in Warwick.<\/p>\n

22 March<\/p>\n

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1916<\/h2>\n

Active service<\/h3>\n

Sent to France in June for the start of the Somme offensive, he experiences the \u2018animal horror\u2019 of trench warfare. Rob Gilson is killed on the first day of the Somme. Tolkien falls ill in October with trench fever and is invalided home in November. Geoffrey Smith dies from his wounds in France on 3rd December.<\/p>\n

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1916-1917<\/h2>\n

Writes the \u2018Lost Tales\u2019<\/h3>\n

Starts to write The Book of Lost Tales, a fiction in prose, partly rewritten in 1920 \u2013 and later published by Christopher Tolkien in The Book of Lost Tales<\/em>, vols. 1 & 2 (1983-4).<\/p>\n

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1916-1923<\/h2>\n

Invents languages<\/h3>\n

Works on Primitive Eldarin and Gnomish (grammar & lexicon); makes lists of names used in The Lost Tales, and The Fall of Gondolin; works on Qenya pronouns.<\/p>\n

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1917<\/h2>\n

John is born<\/h3>\n

First son, John Francis Reuel Tolkien, is born in Cheltenham.<\/p>\n

16 November<\/p>\n

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1918-1919<\/h2>\n

Oxford English Dictionary<\/em><\/h3>\n

Returns to Oxford after the war, and works as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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1920<\/p>\n

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1920<\/h2>\n

Michael is born<\/h3>\n

Second son, Michael Hilary Reuel Tolkien, is born in Oxford.<\/p>\n

22 October<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Artemis, Leeds City Council<\/em><\/p>\n

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1920-1925<\/h2>\n

University of Leeds<\/h3>\n

Appointed Reader in English Language at Leeds in 1920; promoted to Professor of English Language in 1924.<\/p>\n

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1920-1925<\/h2>\n

Writes lays and poems<\/h3>\n

Besides The Lay of the Children of H\u00farin<\/em>, he writes The Flight of the Noldoli<\/em>, a Lay of E\u00e4rendel<\/em> and a Lay of the Fall of Gondolin<\/em>\u2026, and leaves them unfinished. The texts are later published by Christopher Tolkien in The Lays of Beleriand<\/em> (1985).<\/p>\n

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1921-1924<\/h2>\n

\u2018The Lay of the Children of H\u00farin\u2019<\/h3>\n

Writes the first version of this alliterative poem, later published by Christopher Tolkien in The Lays of Beleriand<\/em> (1985).<\/p>\n

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1922<\/h2>\n

A Middle English Vocabulary<\/em><\/h3>\n

This glossary, intended to accompany Kenneth Sisam\u2019s Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose<\/em> (1921), was not completed in time and was published separately.<\/p>\n

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1923-1925<\/h2>\n

Invented languages<\/h3>\n

Compiles earlier work on Elvish into a Noldorin dictionary; also works on an English-Qenya dictionary, and a Qenya phonology and grammar.<\/p>\n

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1924<\/h2>\n

Christopher is born<\/h3>\n

Third son, Christopher Reuel Tolkien, is born in Leeds.<\/p>\n

21 November<\/p>\n

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1925<\/h2>\n

Professor at Oxford<\/h3>\n

Elected Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Purchases a family home at 22 Northmoor Road, Oxford.<\/p>\n

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1925<\/h2>\n

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em><\/h3>\n

Publishes an edition of the Middle English poem with his colleague at Leeds, E.V. Gordon.<\/p>\n

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1926<\/h2>\n

Meets C.S. Lewis<\/h3>\n

C.S. Lewis, a Fellow and tutor in English Language and Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford becomes a lifelong friend. They are key members of an informal literary club called the Inklings, whose members meet once or twice a week to read aloud their own compositions in an atmosphere of male camaraderie.<\/p>\n

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1926<\/h2>\n

Beowulf <\/em><\/h3>\n

Completes his prose translation of Beowulf<\/em> but it is not published until 2015.<\/p>\n

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1929<\/h2>\n

Priscilla is born<\/h3>\n

Fourth child and only daughter, Priscilla Mary Reuel Tolkien, is born in Oxford.<\/p>\n

18 June<\/p>\n

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1930<\/p>\n

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1930<\/h2>\n

Moves to 20 Northmoor Road<\/h3>\n

He and Edith purchase a larger house next door (from the publisher, Basil Blackwell) and the family move their belongings over the fence. They live here for seventeen years.<\/p>\n

February<\/p>\n

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1935<\/h2>\n

Francis Morgan dies<\/h3>\n

Father Francis Xavier Morgan, his former guardian and \u2018second father\u2019 dies aged 78.<\/p>\n

11 June<\/p>\n

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1936<\/h2>\n

Songs for the Philologists<\/em><\/h3>\n

Booklet of poems, privately printed at University College, London, containing thirteen poems by Tolkien written to amuse his students at Leeds.<\/p>\n

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1936<\/h2>\n

Beowulf lecture<\/h3>\n

Delivers, ‘Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics’, the Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture at the British Academy.<\/p>\n

25 November<\/p>\n

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1937<\/h2>\n

The Hobbit<\/em><\/h3>\n

His first work of fiction is published by George Allen & Unwin, with illustrations and maps by the author.<\/p>\n

21 September<\/p>\n

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1937<\/h2>\n

\u2018The Silmarillion\u2019 is rejected<\/h3>\n

Following the commercial success of The Hobbit, he submits prose and verse sections of his unfinished work, \u2018The Silmarillion\u2019 but this work is rejected by his publisher.<\/p>\n

December<\/p>\n

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1937-1955<\/h2>\n

Writes The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/h3>\n

Starts writing a sequel to The Hobbit<\/em> in December 1937. The book is eventually published in three volumes, 1954-55.<\/p>\n

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1939<\/h2>\n

\u2018On Fairy-Stories\u2019<\/h3>\n

Delivers \u2018On Fairy-Stories\u2019, the Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St. Andrews. The lecture is later published in<\/span> Essays Presented to Charles Williams<\/span><\/i> (1947).<\/span><\/p>\n

8 March<\/span><\/p>\n

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1939-1945<\/h2>\n

Second World War<\/h3>\n

Takes part in the civil defence in Oxford as an Air Raid Warden. His son Michael trains as an anti-aircraft gunner and defends aerodromes during the Battle of Britain. His son Christopher trains as a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force.<\/p>\n

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1940<\/p>\n

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1940-1950<\/h2>\n

The Notion Club Papers<\/h3>\n

Writes <\/span>The Notion Club Papers<\/span><\/i>. This unfinished tale is published after his death in <\/span>Sauron Defeated<\/span><\/i> (1992).<\/span><\/p>\n

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1945<\/h2>\n

\u2018Leaf, by Niggle\u2019<\/h3>\n

Publishes this short story, written several years earlier, in the Dublin Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

January<\/p>\n

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1945<\/h2>\n

Merton Professor at Oxford<\/h3>\n

Elected Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Merton College.<\/p>\n

June<\/p>\n

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1945<\/h2>\n

\u2018Aotrou and Itroun\u2019<\/h3>\n

Publishes \u2018The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun\u2019, a fairy tale in verse based on Breton folk-tales, in the Welsh Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

December<\/p>\n

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1947<\/h2>\n

Sells 20 Northmoor Road<\/h3>\n

Tolkien and his wife sell the family home which is now too large and move into a house owned by Merton College in Manor Road, closer to the centre of Oxford.<\/p>\n

March<\/p>\n

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1949<\/h2>\n

Farmer Giles of Ham<\/em><\/h3>\n

This comic tale is published with illustrations by Pauline Baynes.<\/p>\n

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