Tolken's World War One - The Great War

In our last joint episode, we answered a listener's question about sam being the ideal world war one british soldier. In this week's sola, John takes tolkin at his word when he says that there is no inner meaning or message in any of his works which are neither allegorical nor topical. We also look at two specific things that tolkin said that give good reason for seeing the great war as influential. And then we'll separately do a little speculation.