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To put the last point another way, writers such as Graves, Sassoon, and Owen saw the Great War as the disease, but Tolkien saw it as merely the symptom.

John Garth

To put the last point another way, writers such as Graves, Sassoon, and Owen saw the Great War as the disease, but Tolkien saw it as merely the symptom.

Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, the wheels of the world, are often t...

John Garth

Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, the wheels of the world, are often t...

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About Author
John Garth may refer to:

John Garth (author), English journalist and Tolkien scholar
John Garth (composer) (1721–1810), English composer
John Garth (politician) (c. 1701–1764), British lawyer and politician
John S. Garth (1909–1993), American naturalist

Has a knee-jerk tendency to avoid extremes as implausible, but ‘fantasy’ actively embraces them. It magnifies and clarifies the human condition.

John Garth

Has a knee-jerk tendency to avoid extremes as implausible, but ‘fantasy’ actively embraces them. It magnifies and clarifies the human condition.