J.R.R. Tolkien Partially Based the Dead Marshes featured in The Lord of the Rings on His Own Experience in World War I.

A documentary on Tolkien’s experiences during the First World War has recently been published by King Edward’s School, Birmingham, where J.R.R. Tolkien went to school. Old Edwardians Zander ...

"It's Tolkien! The strength of his world-building means there's always going to be a thread that pulls another thread that pulls another thread." One of the threads from the original text The War ...

Near each corpse, small flames draw the wanderers' attention, and Frodo even falls into the trap of one of them ... the late Second Age as part of the War of the Last Alliance, in which Elves ...