Tolkien and the Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tolkien and the Great War write by John Garth. This book was released on 2013-06-11. Tolkien and the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: “Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written.” —A. N. Wilson 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 experienced the horrors of the Great War as a signal officer in the Battle of the Somme, where two of those school friends died. All the while, he was hard at work on an original mythology that would become the basis of his literary masterpiece, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In this biographical study, drawn in part from Tolkien’s personal wartime papers, John Garth traces the development of the author’s work during this critical period. He shows how the deaths of two comrades compelled Tolkien to pursue the dream they had shared, and argues that the young man used his imagination not to escape from reality—but to transform the cataclysm of his generation. While Tolkien’s contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day. “Garth’s fine study should have a major audience among serious students of Tolkien.” —Publishers Weekly “A highly intelligent book . . . Garth displays impressive skills both as researcher and writer.” —Max Hastings, author of The Secret War “Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation.” —San Jose Mercury News “A labour 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 (UK) “Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights.” —Library Journal “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
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War write by Joseph Loconte. This book was released on 2017-02-07. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis--now in paperback. The First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West. For a generation of men and women, it brought the end of innocence--and the end of faith. Yet for J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, the Great War deepened their spiritual quest. Both men served as soldiers on the Western Front, survived the trenches, and used the experience of that conflict to ignite their Christian imagination. Had there been no Great War, there would have been noHobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity by C. S. Lewis. Unlike a generation of young writers who lost faith in the God of the Bible, Tolkien and Lewis produced epic stories infused with the themes of guilt and grace, sorrow and consolation. Giving an unabashedly Christian vision of hope in a world tortured by doubt and disillusionment, the two writers created works that changed the course of literature and shaped the faith of millions. This is the first book to explore their work in light of the spiritual crisis sparked by the conflict.
War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien write by Janet B. Croft. This book was released on 2024-04-18. War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. J.R.R. Tolkien, one of the world's most beloved authors, was a World War I signaling officer who survived the Battle of the Somme, and two of his sons served during World War II. Such experiences and events led Tolkien to a complex attitude toward war and military leadership, the themes of which find their way into his most important writings. His fiction, criticism, and letters demonstrate a range of attitudes that would change over the course of his life. In the end, his philosophy on human nature and evil, and the inevitability of conflict, would appear to be pragmatic and rational, if regretful and pessimistic. Croft explores the different aspect of Tolkien's relationship with war both in his life and in his work from the early Book of Lost Tales to his last story Smith of Wootten Major, and concentrating on his greatest and most well-known works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. This valuable consideration of war in the life of Tolkien is essential reading for all readers interested in deepening their understanding of this great writer.
"Something Has Gone Crack"
"Something Has Gone Crack" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Something Has Gone Crack" write by Janet Brennan Croft. This book was released on 2019-09-21. "Something Has Gone Crack" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Something has gone crack," Tolkien wrote about the first death among his tight-knit fellowship of friends in 1916, and the impact of the war haunted his writing for the rest of his life. In his work, the Great War serves as a source of imagery, motifs, themes and of personal trauma to be worked out in meaningful symbolic form throughout his life.
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook C.S. Lewis write by A. N. Wilson. This book was released on 2002. C.S. Lewis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a documented portrait of the well-known author.
