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Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth

✍ Scribed by Garth, John

Book ID
107822127
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
359 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780007373871

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✦ Synopsis

A biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkiens wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Lord of The Rings. "To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in 1939 by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead." So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The Lord of the Rings as a reaction to the Second World War. Tolkien and the Great War tells for the first time the full story of how he embarked on the creation of Middle-earth in his youth as the world around him was plunged into catastrophe. This biography reveals the horror and heroism that he experienced as a signals officer in the Battle of the Somme and introduces the circle of friends who spurred his mythology to life. It shows how, after two of these brilliant young men were killed, Tolkien pursued the dream they had all shared by launching his epic of good and evil. John Garth argues that the foundation of tragic experience in the First World War is the key to...

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