Time line of J.R.R Tolkien

April 16, 1891 Mabel and Arthur married in Cape Town Cathedral, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

January 3,1892 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien born in Bloemfontein, South Africa

January 31, 1892 JRR Tolkien christened in Cape Town Cathedral, Bloemfontein, South Africa

February 17, 1894 Hilary Arthur Reuel Tolkein, younger brother to JRRT born in Bloemfontein, SA

April 1985 Mabel Tolkein boards the SS Guelph and returns (?) to Birmingham with JRRT and HART. Arthur remains in South Africa with plans to join his family when time permits

February 15, 1896 Arthur Tolkein dies in Bloemfontein, South Africa as a result of a severe haemorrhage suffered the previous day. He had been sick for many months with rheumatic fever, and never made the trip to Birmingham to see his family.

1896 Mabel Tolkien moves her family from Birmingham to the hamlet of Sarehole.

Autumn 1899 JRRT, at the age of seven, takes the entrance exam for King Edward’s School, but fails to obtain a place

June 1900 Mabel Tolkien and her sister May Incledon are received into the Church of Rome, bringing about the wrath of their strongly Baptist relatives.

September 1900 Tolkien retakes the entrance exam for King Edward’s, and is accepted.

Late 1900 The Tolkiens move from Sarehole to Moseley to be nearer to Birmingham and King Edwards School.

1901 The Tolkiens move again, from Moseley to a small villa behind King’s Heath Station.

Early 1902 Mabel Tolkien again moves her family, from King’s Heath to a house in Edgbaston next door to the Birmingham oratory and the Grammar School of St. Philip. To save money, Mabel removes the boys from King Edward’s and enrols them in St. Phillips.

Autumn 1903 JRRT wins a foundation scholarship to King Edward’s, and returns there to continue his studies.

November 14 1904 Mabel Tolkien, age 34, dies after six days in a diabetic coma.

Nov/Dec 1904 JRRT and HART move in with their Aunt, Beatrice Suffield.

Late 1904, Early After the death of Tolkien’s mother, the guardianship of he and 1905 his brother is taken over by Father Xavier Morgan, a priest of the Birmingham Oratory.

Early 1908 Ronald and Hilary move to 64 Duchess Road, behind the Birmingham Oratory, into a room let by a Mrs. Faulkner.

December 17, 1910 Tolkien is awarded an Open classical Exhibition to Exeter College

1911 Poem "The Battle of the Eastern Field" in The King Edward’s School Chronicle, Birmingham, Vol. XXVI No. 186, March. Reprinted in Mallorn, No. 12, 1978.

1913 Poem "From the many-willow’d margin of the immemorial Thames" in the Stapledon Magazine, Vol. IV No.20, December (Published for Exeter College by B.H. Blackwell, Oxford.)

1915 Awarded First Class Honours degree in English Language and Literature.

1915 Poem "Goblin Feet" in Oxford Poetry, 1915 edited by G.D.H. Cole and T.W.Earp (Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 1917). Reprinted in Oxford Poetry,1914-1916 (Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 1917), The Book of Fairy Poetry, edited by Dora Owen (London, Longmans, Green, 1920)

March 22, 1916 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien marries Edith Bratt

June 1916 Tolkien is assigned to the Lancashire Fusiliers and sent to France where he sees some action in the Somme as Second Lieutenant.

1917 Discharged after spending most of year suffering from "Trench Fever" and shell shock.

1918 Introductory note (signed J.R.R.T) in A Spring Harvest Festival, poems by Geoffrey Bache Smith, late Lieutenant in Lancashire Fusiliers (London, Erskine MacDonald, 1918). Tolkien and C. L. Wiseman edited this collection of Smith’s poetry and helped to arrange for its publication

1919 Tolkien works as an assistant on the Oxford English Dictionary for two years.

1920 Poem "The Happy Mariners" (signed "J.R.R.T.") in The Stapeldon Magazine, Vol. V No. 26, June (Published for Exeter College by B.H. Blackwell, Oxford.)

1921 Tolkien begins teaching at the University of Leeds as Reader in the English Language

1922 A Middle English Vocabulary (Oxford, Clarendon Press), (Designed for use with

1921 edition of Kenneth Sisam’s Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose, in subsequent editions of which it appears as glossary. It was also reprinted separately.)

1924 Tolkien becomes Professor of English Language at Leeds

1925 Tolkien moves to Oxford, where he serves as Rawlingson Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College for the next twenty four years, as his main professional focus lay in Anglo-Saxon and its relation to similair languages.

1925 Tolkien and E.V. Gordon publish their translation of Sir Gaiwan and the Greene Knight.

1926 Tolkien meets C. S. Lewis and the two enter a life-long friendship

1929 Tolkiens fourth child and only daughter, Priscilla, is born.

1933 JRRT first begins telling his children of a funny little creature named Bilbo.

Circa. 1933 Tolkien gives W. P. Ker lecture at Glasgow University.

1936 Tolkien delivers his address "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" before the British Association.

1936 The Hobbit is released and Tolkien begins work on the "sequel."

1945 Tolkien becomes Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford; a position he holds until his retirement in 1959.

1947 Leaf by Niggle is published in the Dublin Review, a scholarly Catholic journal. Leaf by Niggle is published.

1954 The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, the first two portions of The Lord of the Rings, are published.

1955 The Return of the King, the final portion of The Lord of the Rings, is published.

1957 Tolkien was to travel to the United States to accept honorary degrees from Marquette, Harvard and several other universities, and to deliver a series of addresses. The trip was cancelled due to the ill health of his wife Edith. Tolkien never made the trip before his death in 1973

1960’s Tolkien was a collaborator in the translation of the Jerusalem Bible from the French (he did the book of Job)

1964 Leaf and Niggle and On Fairy Stories are published in a single edition called Tree and Leaf.

1965 Publication of the American paperback editions of The Lord of the Rings.

1967 Smith of Wotton Major and The Road Goes Ever On are published.

November 29, 1971 Edith Tolkien dies after a short, but severe, illness attributed to an inflamed gall-bladder.

September 2, 1973 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien dies at the age of eighty-one in a private hospital in Bournemouth.

1977 Silmarillion published posthumously, with final editing completed by his son Christopher.


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Arthur remains in South Africa with plans to join his family when time permits February 15, 1896 Arthur Tolkein dies in Bloemfontein, South Africa as a result of a severe haemorrhage suffered the previous day. He had been sick for many months with rheumatic fever, and never made the trip to Birmingham to see his family. 1896 Mabel Tolkien moves her family from Birmingham to the hamlet of Sarehole. Autumn 1899 JRRT, at the age of seven, takes the entrance exam for King Edward’s School, but fails to obtain a place June 1900 Mabel Tolkien and her sister May Incledon are received into the Church of Rome, bringing about the wrath of their strongly Baptist relatives. September 1900 Tolkien retakes the entrance exam for King Edward’s, and is accepted. Late 1900 The Tolkiens move from Sarehole to Moseley to be nearer to Birmingham and King Edwards School. 1901 The Tolkiens move again, from Moseley to a small villa behind King’s Heath Station. Early 1902 Mabel Tolkien again moves her family, from King’s Heath to a house in Edgbaston next door to the Birmingham oratory and the Grammar School of St. Philip. To save money, Mabel removes the boys from King Edward’s and enrols them in St. Phillips. Autumn 1903 JRRT wins a foundation scholarship to King Edward’s, and returns there to continue his studies. November 14 1904 Mabel Tolkien, age 34, dies after six days in a diabetic coma. Nov/Dec 1904 JRRT and HART move in with their Aunt, Beatrice Suffield. Late 1904, Early After the death of Tolkien’s mother, the guardianship of he and 1905 his brother is taken over by Father Xavier Morgan, a priest of the Birmingham Oratory. Early 1908 Ronald and Hilary move to 64 Duchess Road, behind the Birmingham Oratory, into a room let by a Mrs. Faulkner. December 17, 1910 Tolkien is awarded an Open classical Exhibition to Exeter College 1911 Tolkien takes the Honours Moderations exams 1911 Poem "The Battle of the Eastern Field" in The King Edward’s School Chronicle, Birmingham, Vol. XXVI No. 186, March. Reprinted in Mallorn, No. 12, 1978. 1913 Poem "From the many-willow’d margin of the immemorial Thames" in the Stapledon Magazine, Vol. IV No.20, December (Published for Exeter College by B.H. Blackwell, Oxford.) 1915 Awarded First Class Honours degree in English Language and Literature. 1915 Poem "Goblin Feet" in Oxford Poetry, 1915 edited by G.D.H. Cole and T.W.Earp (Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 1917). Reprinted in Oxford Poetry,1914-1916 (Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 1917), The Book of Fairy Poetry, edited by Dora Owen (London, Longmans, Green, 1920) 1915 Commissioned in the Lancashire fusiliers March 22, 1916 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien marries Edith Bratt June 1916 Tolkien is assigned to the Lancashire Fusiliers and sent to France where he sees some action in the Somme as Second Lieutenant. 1917 Discharged after spending most of year suffering from "Trench Fever" and shell shock. 1917 Birth of JRR Tolkiens first child John 1918 Introductory note (signed J.R.R.T) in A Spring Harvest Festival, poems by Geoffrey Bache Smith, late Lieutenant in Lancashire Fusiliers (London, Erskine MacDonald, 1918). Tolkien and C. L. Wiseman edited this collection of Smith’s poetry and helped to arrange for its publication . 1919 Tolkien works as an assistant on the Oxford English Dictionary for two years. 1920 Birth of Michael, Tolkiens second child 1920 Poem "The Happy Mariners" (signed "J.R.R.T.") in The Stapeldon Magazine, Vol. V No. 26, June (Published for Exeter College by B.H. Blackwell, Oxford.) 1921 Tolkien begins teaching at the University of Leeds as Reader in the English Language 1922 A Middle English Vocabulary (Oxford, Clarendon Press), (Designed for use with 1921 edition of Kenneth Sisam’s Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose, in subsequent editions of which it appears as glossary. It was also reprinted separately.) 1922 Poem "The Clerke’s Compleinte" in the Gryphon 1924 Tolkien becomes Professor of English Language at Leeds 1924 Birth of third son, Christopher 1925 Tolkien moves to Oxford, where he serves as Rawlingson Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College for the next twenty four years, as his main professional focus lay in Anglo-Saxon and its relation to similair languages. 1925 Tolkien and E.V. Gordon publish their translation of Sir Gaiwan and the Greene Knight. 1926 Tolkien meets C. S. Lewis and the two enter a life-long friendship 1929 Tolkiens fourth child and only daughter, Priscilla, is born. Circa. 1933 JRRT first begins telling his children of a funny little creature named Bilbo. Circa. 1933 Tolkien gives W. P. Ker lecture at Glasgow University. 1936 Tolkien completes The Hobbit. 1936 Tolkien delivers his address "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" before the British Association. 1936 The Hobbit is released and Tolkien begins work on the "sequel." 1939 Tolkien writes Leaf by Niggle 1938 Tolkien delivers his lecture On Fairy-Stories. 1945 Tolkien becomes Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford; a position he holds until his retirement in 1959. 1947 Leaf by Niggle is published in the Dublin Review, a scholarly Catholic journal. Leaf by Niggle is published. 1948 The Lord of the Rings is completed. 1949 Farmer Giles of Ham is published. 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, the first two portions of The Lord of the Rings, are published. 1955 The Return of the King, the final portion of The Lord of the Rings, is published. 1957 Tolkien was to travel to the United States to accept honorary degrees from Marquette, Harvard and several other universities, and to deliver a series of addresses. The trip was cancelled due to the ill health of his wife Edith. Tolkien never made the trip before his death in 1973 1959 Tolkien retires his professorship at Oxford. 1960’s Tolkien was a collaborator in the translation of the Jerusalem Bible from the French (he did the book of Job) 1962 The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is published. 1964 Leaf and Niggle and On Fairy Stories are published in a single edition called Tree and Leaf. 1965 Publication of the American paperback editions of The Lord of the Rings. 1967 Smith of Wotton Major and The Road Goes Ever On are published. 1968 The Tolkien family moves to Poole near Bournemouth. November 29, 1971 Edith Tolkien dies after a short, but severe, illness attributed to an inflamed gall-bladder. 1972 Tolkien returns to Oxford. 1972 Receives CBE from the Queen. September 2, 1973 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien dies at the age of eighty-one in a private hospital in Bournemouth. 1977 Silmarillion published posthumously, with final editing completed by his son Christopher.