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It doesn't go into depth on Sea Bell/Looney, but the general point you make is one that has been pointed by others -Flieger, Shippey.
I think Frodo's statement about there being no going back reflects the same feeling Tolkien must have felt about coming back to Oxford, with so many of his generation of students lost - they had a far higher death rate, even than the rank & file, as they tended to become oficers, who lead from the front.
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