Is that a text by Tolkien?
 

Years ago I read an english text about a young poet, who knows war only from stories and he dreams of being "worthy to go to war" with the kings men.
One day that happens and he finds out war is different, in the first battle one of his best friends is killed and the text is about him reflecting about this.

The text is not about middleearth, but about some time on our real earth as far as I remember. Nevertheless I think the text might be written by Tolkien, but I am not sure. Do you know a text by Tolkien about this topic?

Thank you so much!

What you describe is vaguely similar to The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.c...of__Beorhtnoth

Begging your pardon, but there have been too many war poets who might have felt honor-related stuff and wrote about it... Tolkien isn't the only one.

True enough that there were many war poets who wrote about their experiences in the trenches of WWI. Yet Tolkien's response to the war was somewhat different from that of most well-known war poets, and that qualitative difference could be what charactertises GafferGamgee's memory.

Perhaps GafferGamgee could explain why he thinks this memory text was by Tolkien?