Tolkien as a Student

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Marky Lazer

To be a bit more specific, I need to know whether Tolkien ever got taught about the Weltanschuungstheorie (world-view theory) of Wilhelm von Humboldt.

Hmmm...I'm thinking that they weren't too keen on Weltanschauung in Edwardian England. I don't believe Von Humboldt's ideas on linguistic relativity really caught on outside Germany until the work of Sapir and Whorf in America, and later Noam Chomsky.