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Tolkien Wrote The Fellowship of the Ring After Burying His Friends in the Trenches
The Fellowship of the Ring is remembered as the beginning of an epic fantasy about a ring, a dark lord and a journey across Middle-earth. But J.R.R. Tolkien’s deeper concern is what people do when the world they love is already passing away.Tolkien writes about ordinary people carrying burdens far larger than themselves: Frodo leaving the Shire, Aragorn living in the shadow of a destiny he has not yet claimed, Gandalf confronting limits even wisdom cannot remove, and an entire Fellowship built around the knowledge that strength alone will not be enough. Beneath the languages, maps and…
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