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Originally posted by mark12_30:
Meanwhile, Father Francis also forbade Tolkien to pursue Edith until he was-- twenty-one? which was when he was back from the war.
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When I first read about poor Tolkien's love life, I almost laughed and cried at once. Not at Tolkien, no, I'm not mean, but my brother has just gone through the exact same experience, pretty much...and was still in the middle of it when I read about Tolkien and Edith.
I think there are many things written in Tolkien's books and histories that reflect what he went through in life. And not so that he could cling to the past and to the hurt, but more like a memory. Something in every human that has the ability to do something well longs to tell the story of the emotional things that have happened in the past though their art.
The greatest authors are often men and women that have been through a lot in life - loosing parents, going through war, loving someone and being torn apart from them, seeing bondage and longing to see freedom - and they want to release all that stuff that's in them and sometimes the only way they can do that is to write.
And because they have so much experience in life and actually have something to write about that they've been through first hand, their books are great and become classics and so it goes on.
But these are only fragments of thoughts that I have not had time to complete and never will complete totally. All I'm saying is, it's possible that Tolkien put a lot into his books that happened to him in life on purpose.
- Folwren