Precisely. Tolkien was recovering from his experiences in WWI and lost himself in writing about the Hobbits, Middle Earth, the Ring series...it was therapy for him. In a similar vein, Earnest Hemingway wrote the Nick Adams stories as a way of coping with his devastating wartime experiences. The clear, Spartan prose of these stories is how he cleared away all the non-essentials and and chaff and got to the heart of storytelling. In the end, though, it was alcohol that finally quietened the thoughts and nightmares of his war years.
Yes, I was thinking the same. Star Wars came out as a movie first, but Tolkien wrote The Trilogy many years before.
Precisely. Tolkien was recovering from his experiences in WWI and lost himself in writing about the Hobbits, Middle Earth, the Ring series...it was therapy for him. In a similar vein, Earnest Hemingway wrote the Nick Adams stories as a way of coping with his devastating wartime experiences. The clear, Spartan prose of these stories is how he cleared away all the non-essentials and and chaff and got to the heart of storytelling. In the end, though, it was alcohol that finally quietened the thoughts and nightmares of his war years.
Very interesting. Thanks.