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

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As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded friends who had wide-ranging conversations in their Tea Club and Barrovian Society. After finishing his degree, Tolkien experienc...

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