News: Tolkien Family

Curtis Brown Heritage have today announced that they have been appointed to represent the Tolkien Estate (including the Tolkien Trust) on all commercial partnerships and licensing arrangements, including permissions requests.

It is with great sadness that we can confirm that Tolkien’s son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien has died at the age of 95.

Christopher Tolkien has resigned as a director of the Tolkien Estate.

Posted by on 2 March 2022

Priscilla Tolkien has died at the age of 92. She passed away peacefully on 28 February 2022 after a short illness. The Tolkien Society sends its deepest condolences to the Tolkien family and all Society members who knew Priscilla.

On this day exactly 100 years ago, an emaciated J.R.R. Tolkien left Brooklands Officers’ Hospital and was transferred to a convalescent hospital in Blackpool. His 18 months convalescing in Hull and East Yorkshire was at an end. Over two summers he had spent nearly 18 weeks at this hospital separated from the distractions of family-life, […]

Rock Cottage – thought to be a possible inspiration for the Cottage of Lost Play – in the Staffordshire village of Great Haywood has gone on sale for an asking price of £375,000.

Curtis Brown Heritage have today announced that they have been appointed to represent the Tolkien Estate (including the Tolkien Trust) on all commercial partnerships and licensing arrangements, including permissions requests.

Posted by on 2 March 2022

Priscilla Tolkien has died at the age of 92. She passed away peacefully on 28 February 2022 after a short illness. The Tolkien Society sends its deepest condolences to the Tolkien family and all Society members who knew Priscilla.

It is with great sadness that we can confirm that Tolkien’s son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien has died at the age of 95.

On this day exactly 100 years ago, an emaciated J.R.R. Tolkien left Brooklands Officers’ Hospital and was transferred to a convalescent hospital in Blackpool. His 18 months convalescing in Hull and East Yorkshire was at an end. Over two summers he had spent nearly 18 weeks at this hospital separated from the distractions of family-life, […]

Christopher Tolkien has resigned as a director of the Tolkien Estate.

Rock Cottage – thought to be a possible inspiration for the Cottage of Lost Play – in the Staffordshire village of Great Haywood has gone on sale for an asking price of £375,000.