While the northern one struggled ... Letter 226, J.R.R. Tolkien mentions that, although he doesn't believe his experience fighting in World War I influenced the actual plot of The Lord of the ...

Haunted by the approach of another world war ... would soon leave to serve in the war. Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Tolkien photogr. 6, fol. 1 / The Tolkien Trust 1992 In other words, in ...

JRR Tolkien spent almost 18 months in Hull and East Yorkshire recovering from trench fever after World War One. The landscape of the area is said to have been the influence of some of his stories ...

JRR Tolkien spent 18 years in East Yorkshire recovering from trench fever after World War One. The collection of letters and manuscripts goes on sale after being found in a plastic bag in an attic.

They married on 22 March 1916, just before Tolkien departed to serve in France during World War I, and remained a close and devoted couple until Edith's death in 1971. Tolkien had the name ...

JRR Tolkien, author of The Hobbit ... It features 11 women in various roles, though one is a giant spider. And in his private life Tolkien had very outmoded ideas about women, stating they were ...