Tolkien and the Great War

[Periantari Andruil]

Yes, i've been lazy in here...
but i do want to start threads in here especially one on Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth. Has anyone read this book? I just bought it and cant' wait to read it! =)

REviews can go here.. Spoilers are welcome (for me at least.) ;)

ANyone read it? want to read it? have thoughts about it? :cool:

[Cassandria]

hmmm that sounds like a very interesting book Peri An :) I'll have to consider that one next ;) It also sounds like it would make an excellent documentary for the History Channel...don't you think? :) I can't wait to read your reviews on it. :)

I just ordered the book of Tolkien's letters. I can't wait to read it! :cool: I wonder if he speaks of the war in them. :mmmm:

[Aragorn]

It's been many a year since I read Tolkien's Letters, but I do remember a good amount of them coming during the war.

[Periantari Andruil]

I read this tonight and posted this on my livejournal but i would love to post this here too because it says so much of the background that Tolkien had and just a great foreshadowing:

Quoted from the beginning of Tolkien and the Great War :

"His mind is a storehouse of images: memories of terrified flight from a venemous spider, of an ogreish miller, of a green valley riven in the mountains, and visions of dragons, of a nightmare wave towering above green fields, and perhaps already of a land of bliss over the sea. The storehouse is not yet a workshop, however, and he is not yet the maker of Middle-earth. But after a mediocre effort in his Classics exams this year he has taken a serrendipitous stride towards it. He has said goodbye to Latin and Greek and is now tackling Chaucer and Beowulf, scrutinizing the origins and development of the English language. It is the affirmation of an early love for the Northern languages and literatures that will always fire his imagination. The first glimpse of Middle-earth is fast approaching. Far off in the unimagined future of **** crows in the courtyards of a city under siege, and horns answer wildly in the hills."
~Prologue of Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth

I've started this book so far and really like it so far.... more thoughts to come later. =)