![]() ![]() ![]() John Garth read English at St Anne's College, Oxford. Tolkien was an English Roman Catholic writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It has prompted scholars to examine the influence of the war on Tolkien's writings. ![]() The book won the 2004 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies. The book was called "plodding" by Tolkien's biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, but praised by other commentators. A reviewer for the Western Front Association thought the account of Tolkien's military service especially good. Wood thought that it underplayed the importance of Tolkien's Christianity. Christian scholars too admired the book, though Ralph C. The book was warmly welcomed by Tolkien scholars as filling in an important gap in biographical coverage. Tolkien's early life, focusing on his formative military experiences during the First World War. Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth is a 2003 biography by John Garth of the philologist and fantasy author J. ![]()
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