LotR - Foreword

[William Cloud Hicklin]

If he was writing during the blitz itself, then he will also have been disturbed by air raids; I wonder if his precious drafts of Rings stayed up in his study while he joined the family in the shelter? No doubt they did.

Oxford was never bombed- a personal order from Hitler. Of course the British didn't know that, hence JRRT's time as an air raid warden- but no huddling in a shelter listening to the explosions. The closest JRRT came was seeing the reflected light from the bombing of Coventry, over the horizon.