Tolkien and the Great War

* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion pictureA biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Lord of The Rings."e;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."e;So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The Lord of the Rings as a reaction to the Second...