The shell-shocked hobbit: the First World War and Tolkien's
trauma of the Ring.In a letter to Professor L. W. Forster
written on New Year's Eve, 1960, J.R.R. Tolkien reemphasized his
insistence that the mythology of Middle-earth was not reliant on
the events of the two World Wars that spanned much of the first
half of his life: "Personally I do not think that either war
(and of course the atomic bomb atomic bomb or A-bomb, weapon
deriving its explosive force from the release of atomic energy
through the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei (see nuclear
energy). The first atomic bomb was produced at the Los Alamos,
N.Mex. ) had any influence upon either the plot or the manner of
its unfolding. Perhaps in landscape. The Dead Marshes Literature
Once the ancient battlefield of Dagorlad, the Dead Marshes lie
north-west of the Morannon, the principal entrance to Mordor.
Several battles were fought here, most notably the Battle of
Dagorlad at the end of the Second Age when the Last Alliance met
the forces of and the