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Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth
by John Garth
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0007119526
- ISBN 13
- 9780007119523
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About This Item
First English Edition Very Good+ Hardcover Very Good+ Dust Jacket Price intact Very Good+ Hardcover. NOT a library copy Cocks forward a tiny drop. All around Very Good+ shape book. NOT fine but excellent and close. NO Writing. No signature. No chips, No foxing. More than a book on Tolkien and the "Great" War. A misnomer if I ever heard one. But offers real insights into J. R. R. Tolkien and his Legendarium. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans for cover, edition, table of contents and surprise photo inside back of jacket!
Synopsis
"Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written." -- A.N. Wilson "A highly intelligent book ... Garth displays impressive skills both as researcher and writer." -- Max Hastings "It is a strange story that Garth tells, but he tells it clearly and compellingly." -- Tom Shippey "Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation." -- Charles Matthews, San Jose Mercury News "Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights." - Library Journal "A labor of love in which journalist Garth combines a newsman's nose for a good story with a scholar's scrupulous attention to detail... Brilliantly argued." -- Daily Mail "Insight into how a writer turned academia into art, how deeply friendship supports and wounds us, and how the death and disillusionment that characterized World War I inspired Tolkien's lush saga." - Detroit Free Press “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 into 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. 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. 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.
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- Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 853442859311279
- Title
- Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth
- Author
- John Garth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0007119526
- ISBN 13
- 9780007119523
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Pub Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- tolkien art faerie undying lands john garth first world war lancaster fusiliers grey havens smaug bilbo gandalf hobbit film fantasy tolkien art misty mountains 1917 the great war
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- J.R.R Tolkien and The Inklings; General /Poetry/Music/Food/Travel/Art/Theatre/Fiction; Fantasy Literature;
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