Many writers who had served during the war were haunted by the - TopicsExpress



          

Many writers who had served during the war were haunted by the memories of the fighting. The sights and sounds of battle could suddenly resurface in their books - even those set in other worlds and times. J.R.R. Tolkien fought at Verdun and the Somme. In The Lord of the Rings, he described a swampy wasteland called the Dead Marshes. The bodies of slain warriors lay hidden in its murky waters, like the dead soldiers of a First World War no-mans-land, lost in their thousands in the mud.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:31:14 +0000

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