Edith Tolkien

Edith Tolkien
Edith Bratt in 1906
Born
Edith Mary Bratt

(1889-01-21)21 January 1889
Gloucester, England
Died29 November 1971(1971-11-29) (aged 82)
Bournemouth, England
Spouse
(m. 1916)
Children

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.