John Garth Tolkien and the Great War (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Tolkien and the Great WarCondition: NewAuthor: John GarthEAN: 9780007119530ISBN: 9780007119530Publisher: HarperCollinsItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 27mmFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/05/2004Item Weight: 310gLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Threshold of Middle-EarthDescription: * TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as ‘the best book about Tolkien’, this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and 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. 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. 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2004 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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