Tolkien was a homeschooler

One of the interesting facts about J. R. R. Tolkien is that he was a homeschooler. JRR Tolkien and his younger brother Hilary were homeschooled by their mother Mabel Tolkien up to his early adolescence. Of the two, Ronald worked the hardest and showed a natural gift for both languages and the arts. After her husband Arthur died in 1896, Mabel Tolkien may not have had the money to enroll her two kids in a grammar school.

Mabel Tolkien instructs her two kids at school at home. As he was known in his family, Ronald was a motivated student. She gave him a lot of botany knowledge and sparked his curiosity about how plants feel and appear. The young Tolkien enjoyed drawing trees and landscapes, but his favorite classes were those that focused on languages, and his mother started teaching him the basics of Latin at a young age.

At age 4, Tolkien was able to read, and shortly after, he was also able to write well. His mother gave him plenty of books to read. He finds Lewis Carroll's "Alice Adventures in Wonderland" to be "interesting yet frightening" and dislikes Treasure Island and "The Pied Piper". He enjoys hearing tales about "The Indians." Additionally, Andrew Lang's "Fairy Books" were extremely significant to him, and several of the works that follow clearly reflect their influence. He owns this.