Edith was both a Protestant and a distraction as he studied for a scholarship to Oxford, so Morgan told him not to pursue the relationship until he turned 21. Tolkien’s Catholic guardian, Father Francis Xavier Morgan, disapproved of the match.
Their friendship, formed through secret whistles and midnight feasts, soon blossomed into romance. Edith Mary Bratt was three years his senior, a gifted pianist and a fellow lodger in the house of Mrs Faulkner in Birmingham. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien – Ronald, to family and friends – met his wife of more than 50 years in 1908, when he was 16. The Hobbit's success heralded a new name in fantasy literature
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