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Born | Edith Mary Bratt 21 January 1889 Gloucester, England |
Died | 29 November 1971 Bournemouth, England | (aged 82)
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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.