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Answer:
Tolkien mastered Latin and Greek. Then in college at oxford he majored in philology; the study of languages.
Explanation:
J.R.R Tolkien loved languages, his mother Mable Tolkien paid for his tuition to attend king Edward school in Birmingham, England when they returned to England from South Africa. Tolkien had great interest in languages, He mastered Latin and Greek and was also developing his own language.
After his mother Mabel passed away October 15, 1904, life was hard on Tolkien and his brother. The father Francis Morgan became their guardian.
Tolkien looked towards college, then was first rejected at oxford but was later accepted, where he majored in philology;the study of languages. At oxford, he read classic literature, Gothic, old English, welsh and Finnish.
Tolkien proposed to Edith in 1916 while still studying in oxford. he soon received his first class degree in philology.
