"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 WarDescription Edited By Janet Brennan Croft and Annika Rottinger Paperback "Something has gone crack," Tolkien wrote about the first death among his tight knit fellowship of friends in 1916, and the impact of the war haunted his writing for the rest of his life. In Tolkien's body of work, the Great War serves as a source of imagery, motifs, and examples of military operations and strategy; of central themes about conflict, comradeship, duty, and the

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When the First World War broke out

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whose importance has been too long overlooked—until now

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