What did Tolkien give his wife?
He wrote her into the story as Lúthien, focus of the most famous romantic legend in the setting.
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It was more of a "what did he give her at their wedding" type of question, because I understand the symbolism of being Luthien, which is awesome, but hard to put on your wife's finger during a religious ceremony :)
Which, I guess, could be said of a book as well........