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ericadawn16Edith Bratt
Edith was a dark-haired beauty that Tolkien fell in love with and she fell in love with him, but they were both young. His guardian forbid their relationship until Tolkien turned 21, partly because she was three years older. She later converted to Catholicism for him. Tolkien based the story of Beren and Luthien about their relationship. The first version of this story was in 1917 and the rest of The Silmarillion began to revolve around this main couple. Luthien was made one of the most awesome of Tolkien's women, battling both Morgoth and Sauron.
In writing The Hobbit, "the single influence that Tolkien called a conscious one was his own "Silmarillion" legends."
Elaine Griffiths
Elaine was a former student of Tolkien and still worked with him as a fellow and on papers. She had been entrusted to read his rough draft of The Hobbit. When an acquaintance came to her with suggestions of something to bring to her publisher, Elaine told her, “Oh Susan, I don’t know it or can't get it, but I’ll tell you something, go along to Professor Tolkien and see if you can get out of him a work called The Hobbit, as I think it’s frightfully good.”
Susan Dagnall
Susan worked for a publisher, Allen & Unwin, and did ask Tolkien to read his work, The Hobbit. She was so pleased with it that she encouraged and kept after Tolkien until he finished the book and made it into a manuscript that she could show her bosses.
Without Edith Bratt, Elaine Griffiths and Susan Dagnall, there would be no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings.
To paraphrase Legolas, we owe them our allegiance.
Edith was a dark-haired beauty that Tolkien fell in love with and she fell in love with him, but they were both young. His guardian forbid their relationship until Tolkien turned 21, partly because she was three years older. She later converted to Catholicism for him. Tolkien based the story of Beren and Luthien about their relationship. The first version of this story was in 1917 and the rest of The Silmarillion began to revolve around this main couple. Luthien was made one of the most awesome of Tolkien's women, battling both Morgoth and Sauron.
In writing The Hobbit, "the single influence that Tolkien called a conscious one was his own "Silmarillion" legends."
Elaine Griffiths
Elaine was a former student of Tolkien and still worked with him as a fellow and on papers. She had been entrusted to read his rough draft of The Hobbit. When an acquaintance came to her with suggestions of something to bring to her publisher, Elaine told her, “Oh Susan, I don’t know it or can't get it, but I’ll tell you something, go along to Professor Tolkien and see if you can get out of him a work called The Hobbit, as I think it’s frightfully good.”
Susan Dagnall
Susan worked for a publisher, Allen & Unwin, and did ask Tolkien to read his work, The Hobbit. She was so pleased with it that she encouraged and kept after Tolkien until he finished the book and made it into a manuscript that she could show her bosses.
Without Edith Bratt, Elaine Griffiths and Susan Dagnall, there would be no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings.
To paraphrase Legolas, we owe them our allegiance.
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