Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. He described the Somme in works including Thiepval Wood. This page was last modified on 18 April 2014, at 13:28. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest battles of World War I, and indeed human history. [2] J.R.R. The Battle of the Somme occurred during World War I. While in hospital recovering from his diseases of war, Tolkien did much writing where his experiences in the battle were where many of the ideas for the terrible battles of the War of the Ring and the epic Fall of Gondolin, which were outlined in The Lord of the Rings and the Book of Lost Tales. British troops go over the top of the trenches during the Battle of the Somme, The 39th Siege Battery artillery in action in the Fricourt-Mametz Valley, Gas-masked men of the British Machine Gun Corps with a Vickers machine gun during the battle of the Somme, German troops outside their dug outs on the Somme, French soldiers pass through a bombed out area as they advance on the Somme, A French 75cm gun mounted for aircraft use on the Somme during World War I, Canadian troops prepare for the charge over the top at the Battle of the Somme, A heavy shell exploding during the Battle of the Somme, A dug-out at the battlefront on the Somme, Situated in the town of Albert, France, is the famous 'Golden Virgin' leaning over the spire of the church in the centre of the town, where most of the British troops were based prior to the Battle of the Somme. It was one of the largest and indeed the bloodiest battle of the First World War. He was aged 42. The battle ended on November 18, 1916. In the months before the Somme, three former schoolfriends had become the first Middle-earth fans, glimpsing in Tolkien’s vision “a new light” for a world plunged into darkness. He contracted trench fever at the end of October 1916 and was then sent back to hospital in Birmingham. The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme?oldid=257908, A Military Atlas of the First World War, by Arthur Banks pgs. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? [4], The Dead Marshes were inspired by the landscape of northern France in the aftermath of the battle. The battle started on July 1, 1916 after a heavy artillery bombardment on the German lines that had begun a week before on June 24. Tolkien fought there from July to October 1916, as Battalion Signalling Officer to the 11th Batallion of The Lancashire Fusiliers. He was unfit for service for the rest of the war. The One Wiki to Rule Them All is a FANDOM Movies Community. 152-58. Robert Graves: A friend of Sassoon and a fellow war poet who served in the same unit, Graves was wounded in eight places on July 20 in a shell explosion. He enlisted as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps on New Year's Eve, 1914, the same year he produced the work. In the space of just over four months, the battle produced over one million casualties and was indecisive and although the allies gained ground (only five miles total) they did not break through the German lines and win the war. Tolkien's involvement in the battle lasted from July to October 1916 during which he served as a Battalion Signalling Officer to the 11 of The Lancashire Fusiliers. J.R.R. Over the years there has been speculation that he suffered a wound to his genitals as well as the leg wound suffered while serving with a Bavarian unit, which gave rise to the legend that he only had one testicle. A s the sun rose over the valley of the Somme River in northern France on the first of July a century ago, the soldiers of the British Empire began their charge on the entrenched Germans.

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