British Literature: John Tolkien
garden, an event some think later echoed in his stories.
In 1900, He entered the King Edward school, where he
learned the old English language and started exploring
other — Welsh, Norse, Finnish, Gothic.
He early showed up linguistic talent, after studying the
Welsh and Finnish languages, he began designing
"Elvish" languages.
Biography. Youth
In 1911, Tolkien went on a summer holiday in
Switzerland, a trip that he recollects vividly in a
1968 letter, noting that Bilbo's journey across
the Misty Mountains is directly based on his
adventures as their party of hiked
from Interlaken to Lauterbrunnen and on to
camp in the moraines beyond Mürren.
Design languages
Even in childhood, John with his friends come up
with multiple languages to communicate with
each other. This passion to the study of existing
and construction of new languages remained with
him all his life
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