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TOLKIEN & THE GREAT WAR THE THRESHOLD OF MIDDLE-EARTH John Garth paperback 2004
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- “Spine creasing + slight cover wear only; excellent internally”
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Subject Area
- Biographies & True Stories
- Subject 2
- History
- Topic
- 20th Century
- Weight
- 500g
- ISBN
- 9780007119530
- Publication Name
- Tolkien and the Great War: the Threshold of Middle-Earth
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Subject
- History
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 198 mm
- Item Weight
- 310 g
- Item Width
- 129 mm
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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* 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.
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HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007119530
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Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Tolkien and the Great War: the Threshold of Middle-Earth
Publication Year
2004
Subject
History
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biographies & True Stories
Format
Paperback
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Item Height
198 mm
Item Weight
310 g
Item Width
129 mm
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United Kingdom
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- 21 Nov, 2019
An interesting account of Tolkien's World War I experiences.
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