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J. R. R. Tolkien
Iohannes Raginualdus Raguel Tolkien la
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
- Child of Arthur Reuel Tolkien and Mabel Suffield
- Married to Edith Tolkien
- Dated 3 January 1892 CE – 2 September 1973 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- 1925 CE – 1945 CE Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Family
The family of J. R. R. Tolkien
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 9
Family 9
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Arthur Reuel Tolkien father of J. R. R. Tolkien
- child of (mother) Mabel Suffield Mother of J. R. R. Tolkien
- of the house Tolkien family
- parent of (child) Christopher Tolkien literary scholar, writer, and editor (1924–2020)
- parent of (child) John Tolkien English priest
- parent of (child) Michael Tolkien son of J. R. R. Tolkien
- parent of (child) Priscilla Tolkien British literary preservationist
- sibling of Hilary Arthur Reuel Tolkien brother of J. R. R. Tolkien
- married to Edith Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien's wife and muse (1889–1971)
Connections
How J. R. R. Tolkien connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 11
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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was influenced by Beowulf Old English heroic epic poem - was influenced by Edward Burne-Jones
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was influenced by Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany Irish writer and dramatist (1878-1957) - was influenced by Edward Wyke-Smith
- was influenced by Elias Lönnrot
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was influenced by G. K. Chesterton English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936) -
was influenced by George MacDonald Scottish writer and Christian minister (1824–1905) -
was influenced by H. Rider Haggard English adventure novelist (1856–1925) - was influenced by Jules Verne
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
22 statements on this record
- 16 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 6 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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