Tolkien and the Great War. On the threshold of Middle -earth. Gart D.

John Gart, a laureate of the Mythopical Society Prize for the study of mythology and fantasy (2004), laureate of the British Tolkinovsky Society Prize for an outstanding contribution to the study of Tolkien's work. At the moment, he is working on the new book “Tolkien Mirror”. His book “Tolkien and the Great War” is based on the most valuable materials gleaned from the unpublished letters of Tolkien and his closest friends, military archives and unique documents of the era.

The book of John Gart “Tolkien and the Great War. On the threshold of Middle -earth ” - a study conducted on the basis of personal military diaries of J. R. R. Tolkien, dedicated to the influence of his life experience on writing“ Lord of the Rings ”. This first new biography of Tolkien since the time of 1977.

the devoted fans of the world Tolkien will be first provided with the history of the creation of the Middle -earth in the middle of chaos and the world catastrophe - the First World War. The experience of Tolkien and his desire to rethink reality, and not to escape from it, his faith in magic spells is what has become a symbol of the “lost generation”, and that is what Gart calls the secret of the enduring attractiveness of the world of Tolkien's works.

For whom is this book:

For devoted fans of the magic worlds of Tolkien

for lovers of “Lord of the Rings”

for those who are interested in the biography of J. R. R. Tolkina

Features of the publication:

Gift edition, with a super-car, foil embossed, noble-cream paper filled with unique illustrative material.