"Something Has Gone Crack"
Croft, Janet Brennan / Röttinger, Annika
Something has gone crack, " Tolkien wrote about the first death among his tight-knit fellowship of friends in 1916, and the impact of the war haunted his writing for the rest of his life. In Tolkien's body of work, the Great War serves as a source of imagery, motifs, and examples of military operations and strategy, of central themes about conflict, comradeship, duty, and the destruction of the environment, and of personal trauma which he work...