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Old 01-12-2010, 10:59 AM   #1
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Originally Posted by Lindale
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?
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