Greetings davem,
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What Garth's book shows is how deeply this time affected Tolkien creative work, which before the war was the dreaming of a young man, with poems like Goblin Feet, about a beautiful fairyland 'over the hills & faraway', to the magnificent creation he later constructed.
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This seems to me to tap into what Tolkien wrote in his wonderful essay, "On Fairy-Stories", that fantasy is not a realm for children only. He wrote:
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A real taste for fairy-stories was wakened by philology on the threshold of manhood, and quickened to full life by war.
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Bęthberry