Also Tolkien’s guardian forbade any contact between Ronald and Edith. On his 21st birthday, when the guardianship ended, he wrote a letter to Edith. From her wiki: ​ >It contained a declaration of his love and asked her to marry him. She replied saying that she was already engaged but implied that she had done so out of a belief that Tolkien had forgotten her. Within a week, Tolkien had journeyed to Cheltenham[11] where Edith met him at the railway station. That day, Edith returned her ring and announced her engagement to Tolkien instead.
zirfeld
*Tolkien’s Romantic Advice*: Find someone you enjoy being silly with.
road_runner321
I bet they were tutted at something fierce.
KnightofForestsWild
He was a mischievous oik, ol’ John Ronald Ruell.
TwinHavenUK
Oh, it’s ‘J.R.R. Tolkien’ and ‘his wife and muse Edith’, not ‘J.R.R. Tolkien’ and ‘his wife’ and ‘muse Edith’.
SS20x3