- English Fantasy fiction, Literature and history, Knowledge, Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
"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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- John Garth, JOHN GARTH
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 398
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, HARPERCOLLINS
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, und
- ISBN
- 9780008337742
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