J.R.R. Tolkien: How the Trenches of World War I and a Love Story Built Middle-earth
pplpod16 Juni

J.R.R. Tolkien: How the Trenches of World War I and a Love Story Built Middle-earth

J.R.R. Tolkien created Middle-earth in the trenches of the Somme, where he watched his closest friends die in the mud of World War I. The Shire was the English countryside he was fighting to protect. Mordor was the industrial wasteland he saw the war creating. And the fellowship of hobbits, elves, and men was the reflection of the friendships the war destroyed. Middle-earth was not escapism — it was the most personal response to trauma in twentieth-century literature.

This episode traces Tolkien from his orphaned Birmingham childhood through the wartime friendships that inspired the Fellowship, the decades of linguistic world-building, and the love story with Edith Bratt that became Beren and Luthien.

  • The orphaned childhood, the invented languages, and the friendships at King Edward's School
  • The Somme, the dead friends, and the trauma that seeded every dark landscape in Middle-earth
  • The love story with Edith Bratt and its transformation into the tale of Beren and Luthien
  • The thirty-year construction of Middle-earth and the unexpected global phenomenon of the published novels

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