Books from the library of John Francis Reuel Tolkien

John Francis Reuel Tolkien (16 November 1917 – 22 January 2003) was the eldest son of J. R. R. Tolkien.

John Francis Reuel Tolkien's library 

Chapman, Hester W. The Last Tudor King. A Study of Edward VI [October 12th, 1537 – July 6th, 1553]. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.
Description: Inscribed John F. R. Tolkien | Knutton | October 1958’.

Daniel-Rops, Henri, The Church in the Seventeenth Century. Translated by J. J. Buckingham. London-New York: Dent-Dutton, 1963.
Description: Inscribed ‘John Francis Reuel Tolkien’.

De Madariaga, Salvador. On Hamlet. London: Hollis and Carter, 1948.
Description: Inscribed ‘John F. R. Tolkien | St. Marys, Coventry | July 1948.’

Palanque, F.R.; Bardy, G.; de Labriolle, P; de Plinval, G.; Brehier, Louis. The Church in the Christian Roman Empire, Vol. I. London: Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd., 1949.
Description: Inscribed ‘John F. R. Tolkien | St. Marys | Coventry | Midsummer 1950’.

Palanque, F.R.; Bardy, G.; de Labriolle, P; de Plinval, G.; Brehier, Louis. The Church in the Christian Roman Empire, Vol. II. London: Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd., 1949.
Description: Inscribed ‘John F. R. Tolkien | St. Marys | Coventry | Midsummer 1950’.

Prat, Fernand S.J. The Theology of Saint Paul, vol. I. Translated from the French Edition by John L. Stoddard. London-Dublin: Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd, 1945.
Description: Inscribed ‘John F. R. Tolkien | apud | Sam Mariam, Coventrix. | dic 5a Spetis 1946.’

____. The Theology of Saint Paul, vol. II. Translated from the French Edition by John L. Stoddard. London-Dublin: Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd, 1942.
Description: Inscribed ‘John Francis Reuel Tolkien | Feria iii infra Octavam Pentecostes | Maji 22 1945 | Stonyhurst’.

Robinson, Henry Morton. The Cardinal. London: Macdonald, 1951.
Description: Inscribed ‘John F.R. Tolkien | April 25th 1951 | English Martyrs’.

Sayers, Dorothy L.. The Man Born To Be King. London: Gollancz, 1946 (10th imp.)
Description: Inscribed Regalo di suo sorella Priscilla
Description: Inscribed ‘To:- John. | Whishing you every blessing and appiness | With very much Love | from | Prisca | For your ordination : February 10th : 1946. | John Francis Reuel Tolkien’.


Biography [wiki]

John Francis Reuel Tolkien was born in Cheltenham. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford and The Oratory School in Caversham, Berkshire where in his final year he decided to become a priest. On the advice of the Archbishop he decided to go to college to study English and joined Exeter College, Oxford from where he received his B.A. degree in 1939. In November 1939, he went to the English College, Rome to train as a priest. Due to the outbreak of World War II, the college was moved to Stonyhurst in Lancashire where John trained as a priest during the war. He was ordained as a priest at St John and Augustine Church in North Oxford. His first position was as a curate from 1946 to 1950 at the St Mary and St Benedict Church in Coventry where he taught weekly classes to 60 children and organized the building of church schools. From 1950 to 1957, he was a curate at the English Martyrs Church in Sparkhill, Birmingham. Thereafter he moved to North Staffordshire, where he was the chaplain of University College of North Staffordshire, now Keele University and at two grammar schools, St Joseph's College, Trent Vale and St Dominic's High School, Hartshill. He was parish priest at Knutton Roman Catholic Church from 1957 to 1966. In 1966, he became the parish priest at Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church, Stoke-on-Trent. He held the position until 1987 and there oversaw the building of a new school. He was chairman of governors at Bishop Bright School, chaplain to the North Staffordshire Catholic Teachers Association and area chaplain to the Young Christian Students. He moved back to Oxford in 1987, settling in Eynsham where he was the parish priest at St. Peter's Catholic Church until his retirement in 1994. Father Tolkien also served in parishes in Oxford, Birmingham, and Warwickshire.

In 1987, he and his sister Priscilla began identifying the large collection of family photographs. In 1992, they released a book titled The Tolkien Family Album containing photographs and memories of the Tolkien family and giving an account of their father's life to celebrate the centenary birth anniversary of J. R. R. Tolkien.
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