His vast knowledge of these languages and their relations forms the basis of the many languages of Middle Earth. As an example, he modeled the elfish language after the intrinsically beautiful Welsh and Finnish languages, utilizing their phonetic and grammatical patterns as a basis (Shippey).
The Great War.
In the first sentence in the Foreword of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkein describes his book as "a history of the Great War of the Ring."" (Tolkein, Fellowship 8) In addition, while discussing the principal characters in this novel, he writes:.
My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognize as so far superior to myself. (van Vliet).
This is one affirmation that Tolkein makes to correlate pieces of his tales to his experiences. The Great War of the Ring was supposedly the war to end all wars. It was an epic battle where humans and elves united under one banner to push back and ultimately destroy the evil that scourged the lands. This would seem to parallel an overall view of World War I (also called the Great War). European countries and the US united under one banner to push back and ultimately defeat Germany.
As Priscilla Tolkein has also pointed out, the journey through the Dead Marshes in The Two Towers looks very much like a description of the marshy and swampy battlefields in Northern France and in Flanders. During the war, these areas transformed into muddy swamps with slippery clay and shell craters filled with water and corpses. Innumerable soldiers lost their footing and drowned in the treacherous pits. (van Holstein) .
They walked slowly, stooping, keeping close in line, following attentively every move that Gollum made. The fens grew more wet, opening into wide stagnant meres, among which is grew more and more difficult to find the firmer places where feet could tread without sinking into the gurgling mud.
When writing a fantasy novel, such as The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein, one of the main difficulties is making the story believable. ... J.R.R. Tolkein is one such author, and his novel The Hobbit, is certainly one such work. ... Tolkein thoroughly describes Bilbo, from his size, to his clothes, to the hair on his feet. ...
When writing a fantasy novel, such as The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein, one of the main difficulties is making the story believable. ... J.R.R. Tolkein is one such author, and his novel The Hobbit, is certainly one such work. ... Tolkein thoroughly describes Bilbo, from his size, to his clothes, to the hair on his feet. ...
The Two Towers The book I read was The Two Towers, Part II of The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkein. ... Also he lives in Middle Earth and I live in present time. ... I think that the story could not take place in another time or place, because technology would be too advanced and there would not be enough forest for the story to take place. ...
Book Report January 2001 J.R.R. Tolkein, THE LORD OF THE RINGS Tolkein's Lord of the Rings is a long book in three volumes. ... This is how Tolkein captures the essence of the adventure. ... so that we know that Hobbit time is quite different to human time. ... He is helped at time of greatest need by Gandalf. ...
Around 55 BC, Romans came to the Britain for the first time. ... Later on, the buildings that Romans made were seen as "works of giants"" by Anglo-Saxons. ... In the end of the ninth century, monks in Wessex started noting the history of their time, now called Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. ... We got many poems, letters and riddles from this time. ... In order to discern Latin works from Anglo-Saxon works, their language is called Old English. ...
J.R.R. Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of the classic book series The Lord of the Rings, was a very interesting and amazing person. Not only did he create a fictional world, he designed a language as well. I believe that Tolkien's writings are based on the very world that he lived in when h...
J.R.R. ... Tolkien made many friends at his school King Edward's, and had spent some time making up his own languages. ... While he enrolled there he spent most of his time studying classic languages such as: Old English, the Germanic languages (especially gothic), Welsh, and Finnish. ... He finished publishing "The Simarillion" and "History of Middle-Earth series." J.R.R. ...
The time period J.R.R. Tolkien was a part of helped influence the fantasy he is so well known for today. If he was not able to experience World War I or witness the environmental impacts of the Industrial Revolution, novels such as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings may never have existed. Althou...