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Originally Posted by lmp
I still think that the WW1 trenches have more to do with Tolkien's Mordor than the Shire.
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Definitely. Philip Gibbs, British WW1 correspondent, published 'Now It Can Be Told' after the war was over. He gave his eyewitness account of the trenches at the Somme. I won't repeat it here. Suffice it to say that .... No. Nevermind.
In Tolkien's 'nastiest' LOTR narrative, he never even came close.
The fact that a hobbit-hole was a NICE, pleasant place makes it diametrically opposite from the trenches at the Somme. They weren't safe, they weren't cozy and they weren't nice. Men went mad sitting in them during the endless shelling. Trenches were worse than oozy, filled with much much much worse than the ends of worms. And you don't want to know about the smell. I've said too much already.