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Published on: 2003-12-30
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"Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written." -- A.N. Wilson"A highly intelligent book ... Garth displays impressive skills both as researcher and writer." -- Max Hastings"It is a strange story that Garth tells, but he tells it clearly and compellingly." -- Tom Shippey"Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation." -- Charles Matthews, San Jose Mercury News"Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights." - Library Journal"A labor of love in which journalist Garth combines a newsman's nose for a good story with a scholar's scrupulous attention to detail... Brilliantly argued." -- Daily Mail"Insight into how a writer turned academia into art, how deeply friendship supports and wounds us, and how the death and disillusionment that characterized World War I inspired Tolkien's lush saga." - Detroit Free Press“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 into 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.This is the first substantially new biography of Tolkien since 1977, meticulously researched and distilled from his personal wartime papers and a multitude of other sources.John Garth argues that the foundation of tragic experience in the First World War is the key to Middle-earth's enduring power. Tolkien used his mythic imagination not to escape from reality but to reflect and transform the cataclysm of his generation. While his contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day. J. R. R. Tolkien Wikipdia John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ([dn nld ul tlkin] [N 1]) plus connu sous la forme J. R. R. Tolkien est un crivain pote philologue et ... J. R. R. Tolkien's influences - Wikipedia While highly creative the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien was influenced by a number of sources. Tolkien was inspired by his academic fields of philology and early ... Against the Cult of Travel The Art of Manliness Modern culture is in the throes of a real love affair with travel. Its become a central element of our zeitgeist a main tenet in living a fulfilled non ... Middle-earth wars and battles - Wikipedia The Destruction of Isengard is a fictional battle from J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth legendarium. It is an important event in the War of the Ring because it ... Il Silmarillion - Wikipedia Il Silmarillion (The Silmarillion) un'opera mitopoietica scritta da J. R. R. Tolkien e pubblicata postuma nel 1977 da Christopher Tolkien con la collaborazione ... tolkien-music.com A GUN THAT SHOOTS KNIVES (USA) - rock Future of Love (CD 2008) [self-released] Enter the Balrog . A HILL TO DIE UPON (USA) - death metal Omens (CD 2011) [Bombworks ... Lo Hobbit - Wikipedia Lo Hobbit o la riconquista del tesoro (titolo originale: The Hobbit sottotitolato There and Back Again cio "Andata e ritorno") noto anche semplicemente come Lo ... FAQ of the Rings - Oak Road Systems See also: Articles Referenced in the FAQ of the Rings I am not now at all sure that the tendency to treat the whole thing as a kind of vast game is really good. ... How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front - The ... Even this was not the whole story. For Tolkien there was a spiritual dimension: In the human souls struggle against evil there was a force of grace ... Gollum - Tolkien Gateway His addiction to the Ring was so great that he overcame his hatred and fear of the Sun the Moon and other creatures. He left the Mountains and pursued ...
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