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Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings battle scenes were inspired by WW1 experiences
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Posted on 02/28/2014 4:23:30 AM PST by Perdogg
The harrowing battle scenes and heartache in J.R.R. Tolkiens fantasy masterpiece The Lord Of The Rings were inspired by the authors own First World War nightmare and the death of close friends from Birmingham.
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History
KEYWORDS: jrrtolkien; lordoftherings; lotr; tolkien; wwi
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The LOTR-FOTR was published on the 40th anniversary of the start of World war I and LOTR-TTT was published Armistice Day 1955.
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02/28/2014 4:23:30 AM PST
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Perdogg
To: SunkenCiv; Tolkien
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posted on
02/28/2014 4:24:13 AM PST
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Perdogg
(Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
To: Perdogg
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02/28/2014 4:24:16 AM PST
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Tax-chick
(I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
To: Tax-chick
I thought the battle of the 5 Armies in the Hobbit was also inspired by WWI.
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02/28/2014 4:25:53 AM PST
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Perdogg
(Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
To: Aevery_Freeman; ShadowAce; Jack Hydrazine; Altariel; nuancey; Thorliveshere; skinkinthegrass; ...
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02/28/2014 4:26:30 AM PST
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Perdogg
(Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
To: Perdogg
Yes. And he had such reverence for the horse, even giving them their own civilization. Long live Shadowfax. One amazing man.
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02/28/2014 4:31:21 AM PST
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SueRae
(It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
To: Perdogg
That’s a very well-designed battle. I did maps of it for the homeschool association’s Hobbit Club a couple of years ago. The text makes everything very clear, including the location of key figures as the battle progresses.
The siege of Gondor in “The Return of the King” is, in its details, the most reminiscent of WWI, in my opinion.
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02/28/2014 4:32:11 AM PST
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Tax-chick
(I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
To: SueRae; Perdogg
I was just going to remark on that. Tolkien obviously loved his horse-cavalry. Sometimes it seems as if his 20th century Christian brain was fighting against his old Germanic heart.
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02/28/2014 4:34:52 AM PST
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Tax-chick
(I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
To: Perdogg
Tolkiens Lord Of The Rings battle scenes were inspired by WW1 experiences Yes....yes it was. this is not news....
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02/28/2014 4:39:58 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Perdogg
The Battle of Helms Deep seems almost a copy of the siege of Constantinople...
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02/28/2014 4:51:09 AM PST
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2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2banana; Perdogg
Why invent a battle from scratch if you don’t have to?
Tolkien had his own experiences of mountaineering in the Swiss Alps, but the scene of the Fellowship of the Ring trying to go over the Misty Mountains is very similar to a passage in Hillaire Belloc’s “The Path to Rome.”
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02/28/2014 5:23:27 AM PST
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Tax-chick
(I've forgotten most of those languages, but I remember the joke.)
To: Perdogg
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02/28/2014 5:53:48 AM PST
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Altariel
("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
To: Perdogg
There is a LOTR? Tolkien ping list? put me on it!
To: Perdogg
Please put me on the LOTR ping list. Thanks!
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02/28/2014 6:25:46 AM PST
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fidelis
(Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
To: fidelis; All
I am starting a LOTR ping list let me know if you want on it.
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02/28/2014 9:00:48 AM PST
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Perdogg
(Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
To: Perdogg
Please put me on your LOTR ping list. Thanks.
To: Perdogg
The LOTR-FOTR was published on the 40th anniversary of the start of World war I ... Cool writers do that kind of detail... makes the writing and experience so much richer.
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02/28/2014 9:52:02 AM PST
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GOPJ
({David} "Gregory, usually as alert and twitchy as a squirrel, flat-lined." Richard Cohen NYT)
To: Perdogg
To: Tax-chick
Well his job in the army in WW1 was to break in the horses.
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03/01/2014 2:19:07 AM PST
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Vanders9
To: Perdogg
Sure, put me on it, please.
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03/01/2014 3:10:05 AM PST
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Tax-chick
(Lost to headquarters.)
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