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-o:~n Ronald ,Re~,el Tolkien _w,asborn o-~ard,January 1892' at Blo;emfon~ein in the Orange Free State, but at the a,ge of four he was taken hy hIS mother, Mary S[tffield" together with his younger brother, Hilary ~ back, to England for 'home leave ~,.After his fa~her"g death from, rheumatic fever, the family made their horne at Sarehole, on the south-eastern edge of Birmingham. Ronald spen t a happ'y childhood in the Sarehole countryside, and his sensibility to the rural landscape can clearly be seen both ,i'n his writing and in. his pictures, After his mother's death, when Roeald was twelve, he and Hilary became wards of a ,k~ndm.y priest at the Birmingham Oratory, 'They' both attended King Edward's Sc'hCU)_) B'irmingha:m;whe'F'e Ronald. achieved distinction in C:~ass:ics; nd a also encountered Anglo-Saxon and Middle English" At this time also, he began to develop his linguistic abili ties by 'inventing languages 'which he' related to 'fai ry~ or 'e~vish!'people, After taking a First in EngUsh Language and U.teratnre at Exeter College, Oxford, Tolkien married Edith Bratt, with 'whom, he had fann.ed an attachmen t when ...1... 'L .,'i.... ]-' di h III d ,. h ., "B" ; , 'H al ' '.. IlU!ey 1100(11 I'Ve, 11],~,ie same ~O·gUl,g=_euse runmrmmg h- am, ,I ae was s 50' comnussroae d__ in the lancashire Fusiliers and served jn the battle of the' Somme, where two of his three closest friends were ki lled, After the war, 'he obtained a 'post on the New English Dictionary, and began to wri te' ~he mythologica1 and legendary cycle which he originally' called "The 'Book of Lost Tales' but which eventually became known, as Tk't Si_'lmarl.'llion.,. 'Ii' !b.. ;md., " h ,.In 1'9120 'T",n11-: kien, now' 'w~'h~ two C]-Il~,· •ren, was appointed ..ll as n ..JII • t\,.ea'uer in t, e
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