https://rinsland.net/tag/tolkien/ Recent content in Tolkien on Rinsland's Corner Hugo en-US Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:05:43 -0500 https://rinsland.net/1963/a-thought-on-lord-of-the-rings/ Thu, 16 Apr 2020 07:46:53 -0600 https://rinsland.net/1963/a-thought-on-lord-of-the-rings/ <p>A very interesting observation regarding the end of the Lord of the Rings from reddit. I wish I could find the original author or thread, alas.</p> <p>“While Tolkien has been accused of basing the Lord of the Rings on the Second World War, the First World War was a much, much greater influence. You can see something of the Somme in the Dead Marshes and No Man’s Land in Mordor. But for me, the most important mirroring is in the soldiers returning home and the Hobbits returning home. In a very real sense, I feel like the point of the Lord of the Rings wasn’t the destruction of the Ring and the defeat of Sauron, but the return of soldiers to their homes. I feel like Tolkien wrote everything before the destruction of the Ring so he could write about what happened afterwards.</p>