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Showing posts with label World War One. Show all posts
22 November 2023

Somme Rain, but More Starlight

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A year ago in July I posted a note called " Somme Starlight " in which I discussed the likelihood that Tolkien had seen Venus in t...
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11 November 2022

The unforgiving, unforgotten minute.

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It was Sam’s first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He won...
06 July 2022

Somme Starlight

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This year on Tolkien Reading Day I discussed the well-known tale of the inception of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth in a couple of lin...
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23 April 2018

From The Top Of That Chimney You Can See Mordor (RK 6.viii.1004)

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Vesuvius 1944 © The Telegraph By 3 April 1944 Tolkien had started work on The Taming of Sméagol  ( Letters , no. 58). By the end of ...
30 August 2017

Review: Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War

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Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War by Elizabeth Vandiver My rating: 5 of 5 star...
17 April 2017

A Head Full of Homer, A Trench Full of Blood

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The comradeship of poetry and war is one of the most ancient relationships humanity knows. They have served together on the plains of...
06 June 2016

In the Dead Marshes We Hear No Larks at Morning

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Paul Nash, We Are Making A New World, Imperial War Museum Since at least the twelfth century larks at morning have featured in Engli...
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31 March 2016

And Yet Remain Evil -- Some Parallels in Tolkien and Sassoon

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Recently I've been reading Siegfried Sassoon's  The Memoirs of George Sherston , a series of three novels which tell of the title c...
01 December 2015

Abraham, Wilfred, and John at the Pyre of Denethor (RK 5.vii.850-57)

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The Parable of the Young Man and the Old So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as the...
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