Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth

John Garth

398 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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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. Tolkie...

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informative 85%
reflective 55%
emotional 45%
dark 25%
sad 25%
inspiring 15%
adventurous 10%
challenging 10%
hopeful 5%
mysterious 5%
tense 5%

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medium 36%

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