Nine years after her death, Tolkien wrote, "My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith."
九年后，托尔金写道：“我自己亲爱的母亲是一个真正的殉道者，不是每个人都像（弟弟）希拉里和我一样收到上帝给予的伟大礼物，祂给了我们一个因劳累与困难而死来确保我们维持信仰的母亲。