Did I hear somewhere that the decendants are not very happy witht he way hes being portrayed?
the mention of twin towers could have possabily be looking across lonbridge from the lickeys with one tower being the hospital at hollymoor and the other being lonbridge pumping station origonly by the longbridge island but gone now
She was his children's au pair I believe. Tolkien had read the sagas in English translation since childhood and had learned Old Norse, so he was able to greet her in Icelandic. https://guidetoiceland.is/connect-with-locals/sigrunthormar/tolkiens-icelandic-au-pairOn a visit to Iceland many years ago. We were told by the guide that Tolkien's nanny was Icelantic and she told him many of the folk-law stories that are passed down verbally through the families during the long winter nights. Those he eventually wrote down and that is were he got his stories.
This mentions the details you gave Dave. Afraid the quality of the clipping isn't great.A Blue Plaque was erected in 1997 to say that Tolkien had stayed at the Plough and Harrow Hotel, Hagley Road in June 1916. Also found a report that this was the night before he travelled to France to fight in the WW1 battlefields. Tolkien was 24 at the time. Is there still a Tolkien restaurant at the Plough and Harrow? Dave.