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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drnuncheon" data-source="post: 1209925" data-attributes="member: 96">One could equally say that Tolkien, who was involved in WW2, actually has the capability to comment on it intelligently, as opposed to someone who has only read about it in the book.  No book, no matter how well written, is going to give the same impression as actually being there, feeling the ground vibrate under your feet as the German bombs hit, of wondering if the next one is going to land on you, of knowing that talking will not stop the bombs from falling, that it is them or you.I have a hard time thinking of Tolkien's work as "glorifying war".  Heinlein's Starship Troopers? I'll buy that.  But not The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings.  Glorifying the people who are willing to die protecting their homes and loved ones, sure.  And why shouldn't he?  That is noble.J</blockquote>