The J.R.R. Tolkien by Robert S Blackham;

Author:Robert S Blackham;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent Publishers Group

The chaperoning of ladies was a very important part of etiquette in the first half of the twentieth century. Father Francis once chaperoned Edith on a visit to see Tolkien in Oxford in his student days, for example. But after the First World War when Tolkien and Edith were living in Alfred Street, now Pusey Street, in Oxford, Tolkien could tutor young ladies from Lady Margaret Hall, at the time a ladies-only college, in Anglo-Saxon, because Edith would act as the chaperone for the students.

A blue plaque recording Tolkien’s life (1892–1973) and that he lived in the area from 1902–10 can be found on a modern building on the Hagley Road, close to the Five Ways road junction. A further blue plaque can be found on the last permanent address Tolkien had in Birmingham, on a children’s nursery in Highfield Road, Edgbaston. Highfield Road is found opposite the Plough and Harrow Hotel on the Hagley Road, where another blue plaque can be found on the entrance to the hotel. This records that Tolkien stayed in the hotel in June 1916 and that the plaque was presented to the hotel by the Tolkien Society in June 1997; there is also a plaque in room 116, the room he stayed in with his new wife Edith before going to France and fighting on the Somme.

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