"Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War

"Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War examines many perpectives on the impact of the First World War on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium and writing in general. It was edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Annika Röttinger, and published by Walking Tree Publishers in September 2019.
==Contents==
*Introduction by Janet Brennan Croft
*Chronology, by Annika Röttinger
===The Conduct of War: Reading the Great War in Middle-earth's Wars===
*Tom Shippey & John Bourne, "A Steep Learning Curve: Tolkien and the British Army on the Somme"
*Glenn E. Peterson, "Strategic Blunders in the First Age Great Battles: Tolkien's Commentary on World War I"
*Annika Röttinger, "The Great War in Middle-earth – or: Where to Find Modern Warfare in The Lord of the Rings"
*Tal Tovy, "Aspects of Total War in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings"
 
===Biography: The Personal Becomes Art===
*John Rosegrant, "Fault Lines Beneath the Crack"
*Michael Flowers, "Tolkien in East Yorkshire, 1917-18: A Hemlock Glade, Two Towers, The Houses of Healing and a Beacon"
*Wilhelm Kuehs, "Two Poets at War: J.R.R. Tolkien and Ernst Jünger in the Battle of the Somme, a Semiotic Approach"
 
===Roots of Major Themes of the Legendarium in the Great War===
*John Garth, "Revenants and Angels: Tolkien, Machen, and Mons"
*Łukasz Neubauer, ""Worried by Silence": Some Possible Resonances of Combat-related Stress in The Lord of the Rings"
*Victoria Holtz Wodzak, "Tolkien Underground: The "Troglodyte War" in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings"
*Molly Volanth Hall, "Narrating the Missed Encounter with the Loss of a World: The Lord of the Rings' Testimony to Modern Ecology"
*Anna Smol, "Bodies in War: Medieval and Modern Tensions in "The Homecoming""
===Alterity: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in War===
*Lynn Schlesinger, "Angels of Care and Houses of Healing in World War I: Their Possible Influence on Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
*Felicity Gilbert, "Mighty Men of War: The Impact of Gender and War in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien"
*Alicia Fox-Lenz, "Contemporary Reflections of War: Soldier-Servant Relationships in The Lord of the Rings and Downton Abbey"
*Giovanni Costabile, "'No Englander May Hinder Me': Éowyn the Highland Pipe Major and Other Highlights of Tolkien's Awareness of Sexual, Class and Ethnic Divisions in Wartime"
==External links==
*Official page
*Bookshop.org
*Amazon.com
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