who was jrr tolkien parents
Tolkien was born on 3 January 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province in South Africa) to Mabel (nÃ©e Suffield) and Arthur Reuel Tolkien, an English bank manager. His parents left England when his father was promoted to head the Bloemfontein office of the British bank for which he worked. Tolkien had one sibling, his younger brother, Hilary Arthur Reuel, who was born on 17 February 1894. At the age of three, Tolkien's father died of rheumatic fever, and his mother took he and his brother to live with her parents, John and Edith Jane Suffield, in Kings Heath, Birmingham. His maternal grandparents were Baptists and owned a shop in the city center.