Edith Tolkien

Edith Tolkien

Edith Mary Tolkien (21 January 1889 – 29 November 1971; née Bratt), was the wife and muse of novelist J. R. R. Tolkien. She is best known as the inspiration for his fictional characters Lúthien Tinúviel and Arwen Evenstar.

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... Edith Mary Tolkien, born Bratt (21 January 1889 – 29 November 1971) was the wife of J ... Tolkien ... an Elven princess and the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar (the name of God in Tolkien's fiction) ...
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... the characters of Beren and Lúthien in Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, Lúthien was the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar, and forsook her immortality ... Shortly after his wife's death, Tolkien wrote the following in a letter to their son Christopher ... "I never called Edith Luthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion ...

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