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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by DrBazza on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:26AM (#31847565)
World War 1 had a massive effect on him. My grandfather who served in WWI aged 16 or 17. He saw things he couldn't unsee, and wasn't what you would ever call "cheerful". That generation had a very different world view.
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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by arethuza on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:28AM (#31847585)
Tolkien write about Sam:

"My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself."

https://johngarth.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/sam-gamgee-and-to...

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