J.R.R. Tolkien (TRIH ep 225)
1914 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook begin a two-part episode on J. R. R. Tolkien, situating him as both a major twentieth-century cultural figure and a scholar of medieval languages. They trace Tolkien's origins from his 1892 birth in Bloemfontein, South Africa, to childhood in Sarehole/near Birmingham, his mother's conversion to Catholicism, and his intense adolescent friendships (the TCBS). The First World War—service with the Lancashire Fusiliers, the Somme, trench horror and trench fe...
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