Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earthHarperCollins, 2003 - 398 páginas A new biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's 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 Middle-earth's enduring power. |
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Prologue | 3 |
Before | 11 |
A young man with too much imagination | 38 |
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11th Lancashire Fusiliers 11th LF 25th Division army Aryador battalion battle Biography Birmingham Bodleian Tolkien Book of Lost Bouzincourt Brigade British Christopher Wiseman CLW to JRRT Cottage of Lost death December Éarendel Edith Elves English epic Eriol Exeter College Faërie fairies Fairy-stories Fall of Gondolin friends front line G. B. Smith GBS to JRRT German Gnomes Gnomish Hobbit ibid J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald JRRT diary JRRT's July June KESC King Edward's School Kôr Kortirion La Boisselle Lancashire Fusiliers language later Letters LF war diary Lonely Isle Lost Play Man's Land March Melko Middle-earth myth mythology night November October officer Ovillers Oxford Parma Eldalamberon Parma Eldalamberon 12 poem poetry Qenya Qenya lexicon Rob Gilson RQG to EK RQG to JRRT RQG to MCG Salford Pals signal Silmarillion soldiers Somme story TCBS TCBSian Thiepval Tinúviel Tolkien wrote trees Tuor Túrin Valar Valinor words wounded