The Influences of Tolkien in The Lord of The Rings
The influences of Tolkien are many and great, but of them all, three stand out most; his great love of nature that sprung from his experiences as a youth in the English Countryside, his acute sensitivity and desire to master language, and his involvement in trench warfare in the Great War. Tolkien himself vehemently denied that the war affected his story at all. "The real war does not resemble the legendary war its process or conclusion. If I had been inspired or directed in the development of the legend, then certainly the ring would have been seized and used against Sauron."
Tolkien's love of language persisted throughout his life from his child hood years till adulthood. When he was a boy he would study W
Living through the Great War and experiencing first hand trench warfare provided the inspiration for the monumental conflict that took place during The Lord of the Rings. The terrible experience of the war must have seemed to Tolkien to be a thing of pure evil with new weapon of destruction tat ravaged the english country side that he loved so dearly. To him the war represented the evil dark privation of light. In Tolkien's eyes the machine of war stemed from man's hunger for power and control over the elements which is itself a conflict with the laws of the creator.
elsh names that would rush by on railway coal cars, and as an older academic scholar he took to discovering the mystery of language in its northern embodiments. Tolkien t
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