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A fresh biography discovering J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime encounters and their impact on his life and his writing of GOD, THE FATHER of The Jewelry. "For being caught in junior by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in 1939 ... by 1918 all except one of my good friends were deceased." So J.R.R. Tolkien taken care of immediately critics who noticed GOD, THE FATHER of the Jewelry as a reaction to the next World War. Tolkien and the fantastic War explains to for the first time the full tale of how he embarked on the creation of Middle-earth in his junior as the world around him was plunged into catastrophe. This biography discloses the horror and heroism that he experienced as a impulses official in the Challenge of the Somme and introduces the group of friends who spurred his mythology alive. It shows how, after two of the brilliant young men were wiped out, Tolkien pursued the fantasy they had all shared by releasing his epic of good and evil.John Garth argues that the foundation of tragic experience in the First World War is the main element to Middle-earth's enduring power. Tolkien used his mythic creativeness not to avoid from fact but to reflect and change the cataclysm of his technology. While his contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping a whole literary custom into a form that resonates to this day.This is the first greatly new biography of Tolkien since 1977, meticulously explored and distilled from his personal wartime documents and a multitude of other sources.
