Resumo de The History Of Middle-earth

There was a conversation that took place between J.R.R. Tolkien, the author The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and C.S.Lewis, creator of The Chronicles of Narnia. In this discussion they talked about how they felt frustration that couldn?t pick up and read the kind of books and stories that they liked to read. So after much debate they eventually came to the conclusion that in the end maybe they had to write the kind of books they wanted to read. So when Tolkien began writing the books he was writing very much for his own pleasure, not for an audience. Also he had no thought whatsoever of using the book as a commercial prospect.

Colin Duriaz, the author of the book, ?Tolkien and Lewis? discussed about the oddity that Lewis and Tolkien became friends in the documentary on the Two Towers special edition DVD, ?At first, it might seem odd that Lewis and Tolkien became friends because there was much bout them that was different. Lewis was an atheist whilst Tolkien was a devout Catholic. They were also very different physically; Lewis was a big man who had a booming voice, whilst Tolkien was much slighter and much quieter and also much more of a perfectionist than Lewis.?

Tolkien and Lewis, along with a group of friends, who shared the same interest, often met up at their local pub, The Eagle & Child in Oxford. All of them also shared a love of tobacco, ale and good food, just like Hobbits, in fact.

In the case of Lewis and Tolkien particularly, they both shared an understanding of what it was, if anything, that motivated and lay behind the ticking of the Universe.
One of the factors, which united the group, was a shared experience of fighting in World War One. For people like Lewis, who had been left for dead on a battlefield, or Tolkien who fought in the Battle of the Somme, I think personally that he needed a new explanation of evil, and they hadn?t got it at the time.

During World War One, Tolkien saw a lot of death and destruction in the mud and the water, seeing dead people lying there, facing upwards. So there?s no question at all that the ?Dead Marshes? where all the great battles had been fought, are definitely taken from his experiences through out World War One.
So these writers (or traumatised writers as I?d like to call them) have all undergone severe trauma of one kind or another and they had to write their own explanation of what evil was.

When reading the first book, the Fellowship of the Ring, I got the impression that he set about writing the story and not knowing where it was going. So when I made more research I found that I was right. When he started writing about The Shire and of Hobbits leaving it, he didn?t really know what he was writing about, and he was making it up as he went along.

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