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J.R.R. Tolkien had come to Oxford in 1910 to sit for his scholarship exam in Latin and Greek, or “Greats.” Since he had realized the importance of Gothic for language research even during his school period, he was drawn to the subject called comparative philology. This subject was represented by the exceedingly eccentric professor, Joseph Wright, the author of the very book, A Primer of the Gothic Language, which had inspired Tolkien to explore Gothic when he was still a schoolboy.
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Zettersten, A. (2011). Student Life at Oxford. In: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Double Worlds and Creative Process. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118409_9
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