{"id":112398,"date":"2022-03-01T18:16:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T23:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=112398"},"modified":"2022-03-01T18:16:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T23:16:37","slug":"priscilla-tolkien-dies-aged-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2022\/03\/01\/112398-priscilla-tolkien-dies-aged-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Tolkien dies aged 92"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\">Priscilla Tolkien, the youngest of J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s four children, died on February 28 2022. She was 92 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/priscilla-tolkien.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112399 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/priscilla-tolkien.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/priscilla-tolkien-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/priscilla-tolkien-240x160.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Born June 18 1929, Priscilla was the only daughter of the Professor and his wife Edith. They were already living in Oxford when she was born. At the age of fourteen, Priscilla typed up some of the early chapters of <em>The Lord of the Rings <\/em>for her father. She studied English at Lady Margaret Hall college in Oxford, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmh.ox.ac.uk\/news\/memory-priscilla-tolkien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"yesterday announced her passing\">yesterday announced her passing<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Priscilla, like her older brother Christopher, was a champion of her father&#8217;s work. She was Vice-President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolkiensociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Tolkien Society\">Tolkien Society<\/a>, and together with the oldest of the four children, her brother John, she published in 1992 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tolkien-Family-Album-John\/dp\/0395599385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"The Tolkien Family Album\">The Tolkien Family Album<\/a>. Frodo&#8217;s name in early drafts of <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, Bingo Bolger-Baggins, apparently came from her names for a family of toy bears she had as a child. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priscilla Tolkien, the youngest of J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s four children, died on February 28 2022. 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