J.R.R. Tolkien and the First World War
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The Tea Club and the Barovian Society
They were very bright kids. The fact that they were in poetry wasn't so rare for people who had an education. It was a bit like having a piano in the family sitting room. With a typical, they were quite scholarly. They liked writing poetry, reciting poetry. But then as the First World War arrived, and they had gone their separate ways to Oxford and Cambridge, things turned much more serious. This is just at the time when Tolkien, in conversation with them, had decided that he was going to be a writer at poet, initially. And they felt that this project was aware of bringing a new light or rekindling an old light that Tolkien put it into a very
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