Wolvercote Cemetery
Victorian municipal cemetery where Tolkien and his wife lie beneath names from his own legends.
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This guide to Wolvercote Cemetery in Oxford stands at the grey granite grave of J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife Edith, and asks why two names from his own mythology are carved beneath theirs. It goes back to a Birmingham boarding house in nineteen oh eight, a teenage orphan, the lodger upstairs, and a priest guardian with firm views on both. Best heard standing at the headstone in the Roman Catholic section.
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