<P> Following their engagement, Edith reluctantly announced that she was converting to Catholicism at Tolkien's insistence . Jessop, "like many others of his age and class...strongly anti-Catholic", was infuriated, and he ordered Edith to find other lodgings . </P> <P> Edith Bratt and Ronald Tolkien were formally engaged at Birmingham in January 1913, and married at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick, on 22 March 1916 . In his 1941 letter to Michael, Tolkien expressed admiration for his wife's willingness to marry a man with no job, little money, and no prospects except the likelihood of being killed in the Great War . </P> <P> In August 1914 the United Kingdom entered the First World War . Tolkien's relatives were shocked when he elected not to immediately volunteer for the British Army . In a 1941 letter to his son Michael, Tolkien recalled, "In those days chaps joined up, or were scorned publicly . It was a nasty cleft to be in for a young man with too much imagination and little physical courage ." </P> <P> Instead, Tolkien, "endured the obloquy", and entered a programme wherein he delayed enlistment until completing his degree . By the time he passed his Finals in July 1915, Tolkien recalled that the hints were "becoming outspoken from relatives". He was then commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers on 15 July 1915 . He trained with the 13th (Reserve) Battalion on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, for eleven months . In a letter to Edith, Tolkien complained, "Gentlemen are rare among the superiors, and even human beings rare indeed ." Following their wedding, Lieutenant and Mrs. Tolkien took up lodgings near the training camp . </P>

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