John Tolkien
From Tolkien Gateway
Template:Youmay John Francis Reuel Tolkien (November 16, 1917 - January 22, 2003) was J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien's first son. He was given his Orders as a priest in 1946, and read the Mass at his father's funeral.
John often had difficulty falling asleep and his father would come on his bed and tell tales of Carrots, a boy with red hair who climbed into a cuckoo clock and went off on a series of strange adventures. This was the premise for the character of Tom Bombadil.
On 2001 he had ordered his attorneys to take legal action against one website, which is advertising a new book containing allegations about his conduct while working as a priest. They are attempting to halt the book, which they claim is defamatory. [2001]
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