where did jrr tolkien live?
United Kingdom
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 When he was three , he went to England with his mother and brother on what was intended to be a lengthy family visit . His father , however , died in South Africa of rheumatic fever before he could join them . This left the family without an income , so Tolkien 's mother took him to live with her parents in Kings Heath , Birmingham . Soon after , in 1896 , they moved to Sarehole ( now in Hall Green ) , then a Worcestershire village , later annexed to Birmingham . He enjoyed exploring Sarehole Mill and Moseley Bog and the Clent , Lickey and Malvern Hills , which would later inspire scenes in his books , along with nearby towns and villages such as Bromsgrove , Alcester , and Alvechurch and places such as his aunt Jane 's farm of Bag End , the name of which he used in his fiction . 

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 On a residence in Harrogate where Tolkien convalesced from trench fever in 1917 . 

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 During his time at Pembroke College Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings , whilst living at 20 Northmoor Road in North Oxford ( where a blue plaque was placed in 2002 ) . He also published a philological essay in 1932 on the name " Nodens " , following Sir Mortimer Wheeler 's unearthing of a Roman Asclepeion at Lydney Park , Gloucestershire , in 1928 . 

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 His practice of dividing his time between Britain and America caused Wodehouse difficulties with the tax authorities of both countries . Both the UK Inland Revenue and the US Internal Revenue Service sought to tax him as a resident . After lengthy negotiations the matter was settled , but the Wodehouses decided to change their residential status beyond doubt by moving to France , where they bought a house near Le Touquet in northern France . 

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 On 2 June 1916 , Tolkien received a telegram summoning him to Folkestone for transportation to France . The Tolkiens spent the night before his departure in a room at the Plough & Harrow Hotel in Birmingham . 
