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Edith Tolkien

1889 - 1971

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Edith Mary Tolkien (née Bratt; 21 January 1889 – 29 November 1971) was an Englishwoman known as the wife of the academic, philologist, poet, and novelist J. R. R. Tolkien. She served as the inspiration for his fictional Middle-earth characters Lúthien Tinúviel and Arwen Undómiel. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edith Tolkien is the 685th most popular companion (down from 659th in 2019), the 2,615th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,217th in 2019) and the 57th most popular British Companion.

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Among companions, Edith Tolkien ranks 685 out of 784. Before her are Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Constance of Aragon, Queen of Sicily, Maria de Luna, Maria d'Este, Helvig of Schleswig, and Empress Wang. After her are Felicia of Roucy, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia, Meresankh I, Hedwig of Holstein, and Hamida Banu Begum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Edith Tolkien ranks 140. Before her are Azem Galica, Pavel Dybenko, Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, Arnold Fanck, Joseph Laniel, and G. M. B. Dobson. After her are Shigeyoshi Inoue, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Laureano Gómez, Maria Dąbrowska, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, and Kanji Ishiwara. Among people deceased in 1971, Edith Tolkien ranks 110. Before her are Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Broncho Billy Anderson, Péter Szondi, Phil Edwards, Lester Germer, and Henri Tomasi. After her are William Tubman, Walter Byron, Ignazio Giunti, Frank Loomis, Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, and Bill W..

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edith Tolkien ranks 2,616 out of 8,785. Before her are William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773), Susanna Hall (1583), Charles Kingsley (1819), Stuart Wilson (1946), Andrew Lang (1844), and Edward Daniel Clarke (1769). After her are Frank Finlay (1926), John Henry Mackay (1864), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), Joe Jordan (1951), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), and John Mahoney (1940).

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Among COMPANIONS In United Kingdom

Among companions born in United Kingdom, Edith Tolkien ranks 57. Before her are Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1901), Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867), Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (1269), Ælfgifu of Northampton (990), Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece (1968), and Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (1210). After her are Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (1261), Maureen Starkey Tigrett (1946), Eanflæd (626), Euphemia de Ross (1333), and Carrie Johnson (1988).

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