J.R.R. Tolkien’s wife was named Edith Tolkien.
Edith Bratt met Tolkien when he was a teenager in Birmingham, and their relationship became an important part of his personal life. Tolkien’s guardian, Father Francis Morgan, initially opposed the romance while Tolkien was still studying and required him to avoid contact with Edith until he reached adulthood.
Tolkien and Edith married on 22 March 1916, shortly before he left for military service during the First World War. They remained married until Edith’s death in 1971. Their relationship is often connected with the fictional figures Beren and Lúthien, whose love story appears in Tolkien’s mythology.
Edith was not merely a biographical footnote. Tolkien chose “Lúthien” as an inscription on her gravestone, while his own later gravestone bears “Beren.” Their shared grave is in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford.