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> Analogy with modern history is, according to Tolkien himself, "completely foreign to my thought". Which, of course, strikes everyone except Tolkien as hilari
by thisrod 8y ago
> Analogy with modern history is, according to Tolkien himself, "completely foreign to my thought".
Which, of course, strikes everyone except Tolkien as hilarious, seeing that he wrote LotR in the 1940s.
- DrScump 8y agoTolkien was more influenced by World War 1 than WW2.
- magduf 8y agoWWII was basically an extension of WWI. WWI was remarkable in that it was the first really mechanized war, and for the time, a really huge war unlike wars before it, which is why it was called "the Great War" before WWII happened. It was a real turning point for western society. I think you can see a big parallel in LOTR here, with the Elves/Hobbits/etc. basically being pre-industrial peoples, while the "evil" forces were industrial societies: they felled trees, burned forests, causing widespread destruction to build their society.