1066: the Battle for Middle-earth

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by davem

Interesting that these pupils spot references to Lord of the Rings in the story of 1066 (& probably in Sigurd & Gudrun if they were to read it), rather than seeing references to history & legend in LotR - but Tolkien (even if only via the movies) is familiar to them, & their history & myth is unknown....... What would Tolkien think?

Maybe he'd be happy that he would be getting more people interested in history.