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		silvester23 on Jan 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Christopher Tolkien has died It's no secret many parts of LotR are influenced by Tolkien's experiences in WW1, but in these lines it seems especially evident.

arethuza on Jan 17, 2020 [–]

There is a letter Tolkien wrote to a fan where he says:

"My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself."

https://johngarth.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/sam-gamgee-and-to...

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