The Bloodhound, the Chef, and the Suffragette is an unpublished comic play[1] written by J.R.R. Tolkien for his Incledon relatives during his vacation at Barnt Green in Worcestershire[2] on Christmas in 1912. In the performance of the play as the seasonal theatrical[3], Tolkien played "Professor Joseph Quilter"[4], the lead role. The ties between the plot of the play and "Tolkien's own circumstances" regarding Edith Bratt are obvious.[5]
'Professor Joseph Quilter, M.A., B.A., A.B.C., alias world-wide detective Sexton Q. Blake-Holmes, the Bloodhound', who is searching for a lost heiress named Gwendoline Goodchild. She meanwhile has fallen in love with a penniless student whom she meets while they are living in the same lodging-house, and she has to remain undiscovered by her father until her twenty-first birthday in two days' time, after which she will be free to marry.
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- ↑ The Tolkien Estate Limited, "Timeline (1892-1949) - The Tolkien Estate", Tolkien - The Official Site of the Tolkien Estate, accessed 7 October 2024 , entry 1912
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: II. Reader's Guide, p. 75 (entry "Barnt Green (Worcestershire)")
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: II. Reader's Guide, pp. 226-7 (entry "Drama - Tolkien as Performer")
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, "IV. 1925-1949(i): 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit'", Chapter V: Oxford, p. 59
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 35 (entry "Christmas 1912")