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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was born on the 3rd January, 1892.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He and his brother Hilary, experienced
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a difficult childhood; when Tolkien was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just four, they lost their father, Arthur,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to rheumatic fever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a widow with low income, his mother
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mabel, home school the brothers and played
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a vital role in their early education and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,development.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tolkien was a smart young boy, with a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fascination and thirst for languages.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tolkien sat the entrance exam for King
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Edward's School, Birmingham and passed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the Autumn of 1900, for a fee of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 pounds a year, Tolkien would be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,educated in an environment that would help
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fulfil his academic potential.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Going to King Edward's was vitally
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important to Tolkien; he was an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exceptionally talented boy. King Edward's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offered him a vast amount of scope and also
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the company of other boys who were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,similarly talented.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which was probably quite hard fork Tolkien
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only did he play rugby but he was a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leading light in the debating society and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the literary society; he was the life and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,soul really and he missed the school a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great deal, I think, when he finally had
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to leave.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the age of just 11, Tolkien and his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brother Hilary, lose their mother, Mabel,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to diabetes. Grief stricken, he plunges
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,himself into school life more energetically
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than before. Academically he excels, but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 1905, meets his intellectual rival,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christopher Wiseman.