num_pages: 398
description: Revealing the horror and heroism the creator of Middle-earth experienced as a young man, Tolkien and the Great War also introduces the close friends who spurred the modern world's greatest mythology into life. It shows how the deaths of two comrades compelled Tolkien to pursue the dream they had shared, and argues that Tolkien transformed the cataclysm of his generation while many of his contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment. The fruit of five years of meticulous research, this is the first substantially new biography of Tolkien since 1977, distilled from his personal wartime papers and a multitude of other sources.
language: English
title: Tolkien And The Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
titlecomplete: Tolkien And The Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
characters: J.R.R. Tolkien
genres: Historical, Biography, World War I, Language, Literature, War, Nonfiction, History, Books About Books, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 6977
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award
category: Inklings Studies
publisher: William Morrow