Show wrote:This is why I will accept that WWI and WWII influenced much of LotR, I will not accept direct correlations between the two.
I think I'm much like you in this way, Show, but less accepting. Of course, WWI and WWII influenced Tolkien as a person, just as anything that big would influence people. But I'm not sure if it influenced LOTR. In fact, from what Tolkien says,
Tolkien wrote:The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion.
it seems as if he was trying NOT for the War to influence his work. He was working on the Silmarillion before, during, and after LOTR, and the Silmarillion was wholly independent of the Wars. He wanted to connect LOTR with the Silmarillion, not the Wars.
