The story of the courtship between J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife-to-be, Edith Bratt, sounds like the plot of a Victorian novel – all enforced separations, grown-ups’ disapproval, and seething religious tension.
17 August 2017, The Tablet
Lord of the romance: the inside story of the Hobbit author's marriage
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