Tolkien and the Great War
2003 biography by John Garth
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth is a biography book by John Garth, first published in 2003. This book looks into J.R.R. Tolkien's early life, examining more specifically the influence of the Great War on Tolkien and his writings.
The book was warmly welcomed by Tolkien scholars as filling in an important gap in biographical coverage. Christian scholars too admired the book, though Ralph C. Wood thought that it underplayed the importance of Tolkien's Christianity. The book was called "plodding" by Tolkien's biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, but praised by other commentators.
The book won the 2004 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies.
The book contains reprints of passages from early poetry by Tolkien, among them the full text of the poem "The Lonely Isle", originally published in Leeds University Verse 1914-24 in 1924. There are also numerous quotes from unpublished correspondence between Tolkien, Christopher Wiseman, R.Q. Gilson, and G.B. Smith.
Contents
- Preface
- Part One: The immortal four
- — Prologue
- — 1. Before
- — 2. A young man with too much imagination
- — 3. The Council of London
- — 4. The Shores of Faërie
- — 5. Benighted wanderers
- — 6. Too long in slumber
- Part Two: Tears unnumbered
- — 7. Larkspur and Canterbury-bells
- — 8. A bitter winnowing
- — 9. "Something has gone crack"
- — 10. In a hole in the ground
- Part Three: The Lonely Isle
- — 11. Castles in the air
- — 12. Tol Withernon and Fladweth Amrod
- — Epilogue: "A new light"
- Postscript: "One who dreams alone"
- Notes
Publication history and gallery
Referencias
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