Man behind the Mythology - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Eruanna · 02-08-2005, 01:59 PM

Thank you, Squatter.
This is a very interesting thread!

Next question:
Mabel Tolkien and her two young sons returned to England from South Africa in 1895. What was the name of the ship they travelled in?

Sophia the Thunder Mistress · 02-08-2005, 03:02 PM

The SS Guelph, I believe.

Eruanna · 02-08-2005, 06:28 PM

You are correct in your belief, Sophia

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-13-2005, 09:24 AM

*Esty pokes Sophia

Sophia the Thunder Mistress · 02-13-2005, 03:27 PM

My apologies.

What was one of the two Catholic churces on Woodstock Road sometimes attended by the Tolkiens?

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-14-2005, 01:46 AM

St Aloysius' would be one of them; I found that information in the "Oxford Life" chapter of Carpenter's biography. I'm not sure where to find the name of the second one, so since one is all you asked for, that's all you're getting!

Sophia the Thunder Mistress · 02-14-2005, 01:35 PM

St. Alyosius' was one of them.

The other was St. George's, which I found on an Oxford tourist-sites website. I'm not fortunate enough to own the biography, so I'm going from the letters and the web (which has proved reasonably accurate thusfar).

02-08-2005, 01:59 PM	#1
Eruanna Memento Mori Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past The Point Of No Return Posts: 1,117	Thank you, Squatter. This is a very interesting thread! Next question: Mabel Tolkien and her two young sons returned to England from South Africa in 1895. What was the name of the ship they travelled in? __________________ "Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."

02-08-2005, 03:02 PM	#2
Sophia the Thunder Mistress Scent of Simbelmynë Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Aboard Highwind, bound for Traverse Town Posts: 1,780	How might one pronounce that? The SS Guelph, I believe. __________________ The seasons fall like silver swords, the years rush ever onward; and soon I sail, to leave this world, these lands where I have wander'd. O Elbereth! O Queen who dwells beyond the Western Seas, spare me yet a little time 'ere white ships come for me!

02-08-2005, 06:28 PM	#3
Eruanna Memento Mori Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past The Point Of No Return Posts: 1,117	You are correct in your belief, Sophia __________________ "Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."

02-13-2005, 09:24 AM	#4
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Esty pokes Sophia* __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

02-13-2005, 03:27 PM	#5
Sophia the Thunder Mistress Scent of Simbelmynë Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Aboard Highwind, bound for Traverse Town Posts: 1,780	Goodness! I've forgotten more threads than I've remembered My apologies. What was one of the two Catholic churces on Woodstock Road sometimes attended by the Tolkiens? __________________ The seasons fall like silver swords, the years rush ever onward; and soon I sail, to leave this world, these lands where I have wander'd. O Elbereth! O Queen who dwells beyond the Western Seas, spare me yet a little time 'ere white ships come for me!

02-14-2005, 01:46 AM	#6
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	St Aloysius' would be one of them; I found that information in the "Oxford Life" chapter of Carpenter's biography. I'm not sure where to find the name of the second one, so since one is all you asked for, that's all you're getting! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

02-14-2005, 01:35 PM	#7
Sophia the Thunder Mistress Scent of Simbelmynë Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Aboard Highwind, bound for Traverse Town Posts: 1,780	Your go, Esty. St. Alyosius' was one of them. The other was St. George's, which I found on an Oxford tourist-sites website. I'm not fortunate enough to own the biography, so I'm going from the letters and the web (which has proved reasonably accurate thusfar). __________________ The seasons fall like silver swords, the years rush ever onward; and soon I sail, to leave this world, these lands where I have wander'd. O Elbereth! O Queen who dwells beyond the Western Seas, spare me yet a little time 'ere white ships come for me!