Tolkien and the Great War. At the Threshold of Middle-earth

John Garth, winner of the Mythopoeic Society Award for Scholarship in Myth and Fantasy 2004, recipient of the British Tolkien Society Award for outstanding contribution to the study of Tolkien's work. He is currently working on a new book, Tolkien's Mirror. His book Tolkien and the Great War is based on invaluable materials drawn from unpublished letters of Tolkien and his close friends, military archives, and unique documents of the era. John Garth's book Tolkien and the Great War. At the Threshold of Middle-earth — is a study conducted based on the personal military diaries of J. R. R. Tolkien, dedicated to the influence of his life experience on the writing of The Lord of the Rings. This is the first actually new biography of Tolkien since 1977. Devoted fans of Tolkien's world will be provided for the first time with the history of the creation of Middle-earth amidst chaos and global catastrophe — World War I. Tolkien's experiences and his desire to rethink reality rather than escape from it, his faith in magical charms — this is what became the symbol of the lost generation, and this is what Garth calls the secret of the enduring appeal of Tolkien's works. For whom this book is intended: • For devoted fans of Tolkien's magical worlds • For lovers of The Lord of the Rings • For those interested in the biography of J. R. R. Tolkien Special features of the edition: Gift edition, with a dust jacket, foil embossing, noble cream paper, filled with unique illustrative material.