What's With this Always Going Underground - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Scapegoat · 02-26-2002, 03:47 AM

Tolkien did indeed have 'cave-experience'. He spent four months in and out of trenches and underground bunkers during the Battle of the Somme. Why shouldn't he imagine strange peoples and adventures beneath the earth? He had witnessed them.
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02-26-2002, 03:47 AM	#23
Scapegoat Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New England Posts: 18	Tolkien did indeed have 'cave-experience'. He spent four months in and out of trenches and underground bunkers during the Battle of the Somme. Why shouldn't he imagine strange peoples and adventures beneath the earth? He had witnessed them. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]