J.R.R. Tokein’s early childhood

John Ronald Reuel Tolkein was an English writer and philologist. He was born on 3 January 1892 in Republic of South Africa. He was the author of the high fantasy works ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’. ‘The Hobbit’ is one of the best books of all time, with over 100 million copies sold. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential film series ever made. The three films were shot simultaneously in Peter Jackson’s native New Zealand. In Tolkein’s early childhood he could read by age of four, and could write soon afterwards. He read many books in his childhood, because his mother, Mabel, allowed him to read many books. He disliked ‘Treasure Island’ and ‘The Pied Piper’ and thought ‘Alice’s adventures in wonderland’ was ‘amusing but disturbing’. However he liked stories about ‘Red Indians’ and ‘Fairy Books’. Young Tolkein liked to draw landscapes and trees, but his favourite lessons were conceding languages. And It’s because Mabel taught him the rudiments of Latin very early. But his great teacher Mabel died when he was 12 which is 9 years after his father Arthur’s death. Before Mabel’s death, she had assigned the guardianship of her sons to her close friend, Francis Xavier Morgan of the Birmingham Oratory. So after Mabel’s death, Tolkein grew up in the Edgaston area of Birmingham.