JRR tolkien essay

[Bloodman]

It has to be five pages long.

I have to write how his books (the lord of the ring series and the hoobit) relate to his life. I already have where he lived and loss of loved ones in his family and also the wars he was in. Anybody got any info they can give me?

[Perfect Agent]

Do your own bloody homework.

[plebben]

how they relate to his life? :S
well he lived on teh countryside in south africa until he was 12

other than that he was insane if you ask me.. sane people dont come up with whole paralell worlds in their fantasy.
I dont think the books reflect much of his life..

oh.. he was more or less asexual i think. he hated women it is said which reflects in the lack of erotica in the books.
He did have children though so i suppose he wasnt that extremely asexual... well.... whatever.

[Bloodman]

I did some research and you would be surprised. He practicaly had as many deaths as Poe which reflects the people who everybody loves dying.

Did you also know that in Africa he was bit by a terantiala? that would possibly explain the whole spider scen in Return of the king on mount Doom.

And the whole battle scene stuff comes from when he was in the trenches.

[peasantlover]

Ignore what Plebben said completely. Heh.


Well, he lost a lot of friends in World War I.. and he wrote trilogy during World War II.. so a lot of the destruction caused by war can be seen the books. Im sure you could find a critical essay of LOTR which compared his work to WWII (Nazi = Nazgul, Allies = elves, dwarves, men, Axis = Orcs + Umbar, etc.).. but you can get a lot of information about his life from the prologue..

[Bloodman]

anyone have any hardcore Tolkien sites that include a large biography?

[Cofey]

It has to be five pages long.

I have to write how his books (the lord of the ring series and the hoobit) relate to his life. I already have where he lived and loss of loved ones in his family and also the wars he was in. Anybody got any info they can give me?
*Sigh* People always draw comparisons between LOTR and WWII, when he said himself, too many times to count, that the books had nothing to do with his experience in the war. Of course a lot of people don't believe him, but I personally do. Based on all I know about him, I don't think he was one to lie.

The reason he wrote LOTR was because he wanted to create an English myth. He was extremely interested in old literature such as Beowulf, old Norse writings, etc. and was an English professor at Oxford for several years. He stated himself that he didn't think the English had enough good mythology, such as the Vikings and Greeks had, and he wanted to give that to the English. Hence, LOTR and The Silmarillion were begun.

The Hobbit is another story...from what I've read he was grading tests one day, and just stopped and wrote on a piece of paper "In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit," and that's how that began. Pretty funny I think, just spontaneously writing something like that.

[peasantlover]

Yes, I am aware that he said it wasnt about WWII.. he said it was more about WWI, if anything. However, the parallels are too big to be ignored. I suspect, since he wrote the trilogy during WWII, that it was in the back of his mind, and he at least subconsciously put created parallels.