Sign in with Facebook
John hasn't connected with his friends on Goodreads, yet.
John Garth
Goodreads Author
Website
Genre
Member Since
November 2014
|
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
—
published
2003
—
20 editions
|
|
|
Tolkien at Exeter College: How an Oxford undergraduate created Middle-earth
—
published
2014
|
|
|
the grand tour john garth
—
published
2014
|
|
|
Boy Scouts on the Trail
—
published
2015
—
8 editions
|
|
|
The Ring Goes On: Proceedings Of The Tolkien 2005 Conference 50 Years Of The Lord Of The Rings
by ,
—
published
2008
|
|
|
Tolkien. La luce e l'ombra
by ,
—
published
2011
|
|
|
J.R.R. Tolkien: Fantázia és erkölcs - Jubileumi tanulmánykötet
by ,
—
published
2012
|
|
|
JRR Tolkien l'esperantista. Prima dell'arrivo di Bilbo Baggins
by , |
|
Upcoming Events
No scheduled events.
Add an event.
John’s Recent Updates
|
John Garth
and
3 other people
liked
Neil Coulter's review
of
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth:
"I read Tolkien and the Great War as part of a group read with the Tolkien group on Goodreads, and I'm so glad I did. I've read a lot of books about Tolkien, and this is one of the very best. Garth delves into the biographical details of Tolkien's..."
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
John Garth
and
3 other people
liked
Elizabeth's review
of
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth:
"I actually really enjoyed this book. Other books about Tolkien seem to skip over the time he spent in WWI. They talk briefly about it and then move on.
This book was based all around the time he spent in the army and it's effect on his writing. It..." Read more of this review » |
|
|
John Garth
and
13 other people
liked
Moira Russell's review
of
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth:
"This is a necessary book - worth reading not just for the inside dope on Tolkien's mythology (which frankly I'm not that interested in, but the book was compelling anyway). This book is also a thoughtful, sensitive, well-written consideration of t..."
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
John Garth
and
16 other people
liked
BAM The Bibliomaniac 's review
of
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth:
"DOES ANYONE REALIZE HOW CLOSE WE WERE TO LOSING TOLKIEN?!?!?? Can you imagine a world without his Hobbits, his elves, his orcs?
The man is a genius, not just a literary genius, but an absolute linguistic pedant. I finished this book simply fascina..." Read more of this review » |
|
“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
