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John Garth
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Tolkien And The Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
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2003
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8 editions
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The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth
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2020
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14 editions
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Tolkien at Exeter College: How an Oxford undergraduate created Middle-earth
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2014
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The Ring Goes On: Proceedings Of The Tolkien 2005 Conference 50 Years Of The Lord Of The Rings
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2008
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3 editions
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JRR Tolkien l'esperantista. Prima dell'arrivo di Bilbo Baggins
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Tolkien. La luce e l'ombra
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2011
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Fantázia és erkölcs - Jubileumi tanulmánykötet
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2012
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“To put the last point another way, writers such as Graves, Sassoon, and Owen saw the Great War as the disease, but Tolkien saw it as merely the symptom.”
― Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
― Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
“Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods, but by the seemingly unknown and weak'. Such a worldview is inherent in the fairy-tale (and Christian) idea of the happy ending in which the dispossessed are restored to joy; but perhaps Tolkien was also struck by the way it had been borne out in the Great War, when ordinary people stepped out of ordinary lives to carry the fate of nations.”
― Tolkien And The Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
― Tolkien And The Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
“has a knee-jerk tendency to avoid extremes as implausible, but ‘fantasy’ actively embraces them. It magnifies and clarifies the human condition.”
― Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
― Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
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