Tolkein's Accomplishments

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Tolkein’s mother started tutoring him at a very early age. He was able to read at a fifth grade level by the age of four (Southam). Tolkien attended elementary and high school at King Edward’s School (Southam). It was there that he and all his friends opened up their own book and reader’s club. At the age of sixteen, he was entered into Oxford University. That was where he met Edith Mary Bratt who he soon fell in love with (Southam). She was seen as a distraction by his guardians and his school funding was cut off until he agreed to stop seeing her (Southam). They started dating again soon after he graduated from Oxford. Some of Tolkien’s earliest writings were done when he was still in school at Oxford. He wrote a paper on Beowulf while schooling there,…show more content…
He wrote a paper on Beowulf while schooling there, and it is still used in Beowulf research to this day (Carpenter 39). While he was a professor at Leed’s, he and another professor wrote a book that is also still used today. The book is called The Middle English Vocabulary (Carpenter 27). The first book he wrote and published on his own was The Book of Lost Tales (Carpenter 30). He wrote the book in its entirety while he was recovering from an illness he got while serving a tour in the English Army (Carpenter 30)Tolkein’s mother started tutoring him at a very early age. He was able to read at a fifth grade level by the age of four (Southam). Tolkien attended elementary and high school at King Edward’s School (Southam). It was there that he and all his friends opened up their own book and reader’s club. At the age of sixteen, he was entered into Oxford University. That was where he met Edith Mary Bratt who he soon fell in love with (Southam). She was seen as a distraction by his guardians and his school funding was cut off until he agreed to stop seeing her (Southam). They started dating again soon after he graduated from

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