My favorite author is Tolkien, mainly because of LOTR,
I watched LOTR first backwards - 3 -1, odiously I never thought much of it as I couldn't understand the story,
a few months later I watched it again the right way, the very next day I bought the book,
before then I had never been interested in fantasy.
My mother told me that the screeching sound of the Ring Wraith's is from his experience of WW1, apparently he's describing the sound of bombs dropping around his trench. I can imagine him curled up in the mud when the bombs are falling, peeking from a bloody eye to see his friends screaming in agony as the bombs screech down.
I think most of his ideas came from those times, the ring (precious) might have come from talking to his comrades, in war, soldiers seem to value little things that remind them of home, books, rings, etc. I can see him sat in a muddy trench looking at a friend who's stroking his ring, thinking of his wife at home.
I like to think he told some of his storys to his friends during those terrible times.
I haven't researched Tolkien as I have my own image in my head of him that I don't wont to spoil.
Sorry for my bad grammar.
I watched LOTR first backwards - 3 -1, odiously I never thought much of it as I couldn't understand the story,
a few months later I watched it again the right way, the very next day I bought the book,
before then I had never been interested in fantasy.
My mother told me that the screeching sound of the Ring Wraith's is from his experience of WW1, apparently he's describing the sound of bombs dropping around his trench. I can imagine him curled up in the mud when the bombs are falling, peeking from a bloody eye to see his friends screaming in agony as the bombs screech down.
I think most of his ideas came from those times, the ring (precious) might have come from talking to his comrades, in war, soldiers seem to value little things that remind them of home, books, rings, etc. I can see him sat in a muddy trench looking at a friend who's stroking his ring, thinking of his wife at home.
I like to think he told some of his storys to his friends during those terrible times.
I haven't researched Tolkien as I have my own image in my head of him that I don't wont to spoil.
Sorry for my bad grammar.
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