Rednal is an area on the extreme south-western tip of Birmingham, England. It is near Longbridge (electorally, it's in the Longbridge Ward) and the Lickey Hills. The east of Rednal stands in the shadow of the huge Longbridge car factory, which was built some 30 years before most of the homes in Rednal. Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien was living at Fern Cottage in Rednal, when his mother died there in 1904, when he was 12. He later recalled:… (More on Rednal)