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The Great War and Middle-earth. J. R. R. Tolkien took part in the First World War, known then as the Great War, and began his fantasy Middle-earth writings at that time. The Fall of Gondolin was the first prose work that he created after returning from the front, and it contains detailed descriptions of battle and streetfighting.
From the title, I assumed that John Garth's Tolkien and the Great War would be a very short book. After all, a great deal of tolkien's Great War experience consisted of lying flat on his back in a fever ward recovering from a near-fatal case of trench fever. tolkien's WWI combat service was very brief. He went to France in early June of 1915, first saw combat in mid-July, developed trench ...
11 giu 2013 · John Garth's Tolkien and the Great War will certainly captivate an elite segment of those recent converts, but it is written more for those who have long been enthralled by Middle-earth and its fantastic denizens.
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Definitive biography tracing the origins of Middle-earth to Tolkien’s youth and his experiences in the First World War.
3 gen 2017 · For the 125th anniversary of his birth, Simon Tolkien describes how the Great War lives on in his grandfather JRR Tolkien's stories.
7 mag 2019 · 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.
