Middle-earth’s best First Age story wouldn’t exist had J.R.R.
Tolkien not met Edith Bratt in 1908.
Tolkiens Middle-earth mythology includes several epic and powerful love stories.
Tolkiens father died when he was four years old, and his mother died when he was 12.
It was here, in 1908, thatTolkienfirst met pianist Edith Bratt.
Edith had been raised by her single mother Frances, who had died when she was 14.
Now 19, Edith had finished school and was under the legal guardianship of a solicitor called Stephen Gateley.
Tolkien and Edith became very close and by the summer of 1909 they had fallen in love.
However, when Father Morgan found out in the autumn, he was not best pleased.
A month or two after the wedding, he was sent to France.
A. Milne, as well as Tolkiens later friend, C. S. Lewis.
Aragorns choice of this song is a little clue about his true identity.
