Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth
A biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of "The Lord of The Rings". The period of Tolkien's life in which he fought in The Great War has remained largely unexplored and unresearched by his many and various biographers. This volume...
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A biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of "The Lord of The Rings". The period of Tolkien's life in which he fought in The Great War has remained largely unexplored and unresearched by his many and various biographers. This volume concentrates specifically on this period life and relates it to his creation of some of the world's best-loved literary works. Having lost many of his friends from school and university in the First World War, this, coupled with his time spent as a signaller in the Royal Lancashire Fusiliers, had a profound impact on him. As did, it would seem, the writing of G.B. Smith, a close friend who was sadly lost in the War. Invalided home from the Somme,Tolkien was able to reflect on his life, and John Garth argues that, far from being a flight of fancy, "The Lord of The Rings" is, in fact, a product of his wartime experiences and stands as a great war novel.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780007119523 (0007119526)
Publish date: October 20th 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 398
Edition language: English
This isn't a complete biography of Tolkien but instead a detailed account of the careers of Tolkien and his three closest friends, collectively "the TCBSites" during WWI which goes on to discuss how the war affected Tolkien's creative output, making a convincing case that it is here, rather than in ...
I finished this Tuesday and since I have to take it back to the library on Friday, I will have a real review by then.To tide you over till that happy day - This is a well-written, fascinating look at a particular moment in Tolkien's life that deepened my understanding of Tolkien's work and made me a...