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by John Garth


  Arthurian legend 67, 107, 281, 288

  Artois, France 189 and fn.

  Aryador (land of mortals and shadow-folk) 95, 98-100, 107, 215, 266, 267, 294

  and ancient Europe 96, 113, 126

  Aryan 96

  Asgard 86, 257; see Valinor Asturias (hospital ship) 205, 233

  Atkins, Frederick Melvin (11th LF subaltern) 171

  Atlantis see Númenor

  Auchonvillers, France 172, 173

  Audacious, sinking of the 50

  Auden, W. H.: JRRT to 26, 295

  Aulë (smith of the Valar) 241

  Authuille, France 159, 160

  Authuille Wood see Blighty Wood

  Avalon 107

  Baggins, Bilbo 282, 307

  Baggins, Frodo 311

  Balrogs (demons of Melko) 220

  Bard the Bowman 308

  Barnsley, Brigadier-General Sir John 41, 207

  Barnsley, Thomas Kenneth (‘Tea-Cake’; TCBS member) 7, 8, 19fn.

  at Cambridge 27, 32

  death 8, 250

  and TCBS 7, 27, 32, 55, 137

  war service 41, 48, 68, 111, 206

  Barnt Green (Worcestershire) 83, 89

  Barrie, J. M. 93

  Peter Pan 73, 77, 80, 86, 226, 298

  Barrovian Society see TCBS

  Barrowclough, Sidney (TCBS member) 4, 6, 8, 19fn., 27, 31, 55, 57, 111

  Basra (Mesopotamia) 233

  Bath (Somerset) 103, 104

  The Battle of Maldon (Old English poem) 71

  ‘Battle of Unnumbered Tears’ 241, 266, 269, 277, 298

  battles see under individual locations Beaumont-Hamel, France 172, 206

  Beauval, France 170, 171, 173, 199-200

  Bécourt, France 150fn., 152-3

  Cemetery 193fn.

  Bedford 88, 89, 93

  Beleg (Elven archer) 267, 270

  Beorhtnoth 43, 71, 295

  Beowulf 4, 34, 43, 227, 231, 290, 291, 294, 295

  Beren (Elf, lover of Tinúviel) 262, 263, 264, 265, 268, 269, 272, 277, 279, 305

  as mortal 262fn.

  and Tolkien 284

  Bertrancourt, France 173

  Beswick, Rodney Knight (11th LF officer) 247

  Bifrost 227

  Bird, Lieut. Col. Laurence Godfrey (11th LF commander) 148, 158, 172, 190, 191, 193, 205, 206, 234

  Birmingham 3, 5, 11-12, 27, 31, 40-1, 48, 83, 129, 138, 205-6, 207, 231, 260

  Oratory 12, 48, 94, 129

  see also King Edward’s School

  Birmingham Battalions see Royal Warwickshire Regiments

  Birmingham Daily Post 41, 48

  Birmingham University military hospital 41, 169, 205-6, 231

  Black Breath 312

  Blackpool: Savoy Convalescent Hospital 248

  Blake, William 296, 298

  Blighty Wood (Authuille Wood), France 154, 160, 161, 178, 194

  Bloemfontein, Orange Free State 11, 23

  Blunden, Edmund 186, 187

  Boer War 11, 21, 24, 69

  Boggart Hole Clough, France 159, 160

  ‘The Book of Lost Tales’ see under Tolkien, J.R.R., stories

  Bournemouth 283, 284

  Bouzincourt, France 157-8, 161, 162, 167, 168, 170, 185, 188, 189, 193, 295

  Bowyer, Joseph (11th LF quartermaster) 176fn., 239

  Bradnam, Albert Edward (Gilson’s batman) 153, 155, 156, 170 and fn.

  Bratt, Edith see Tolkien, Edith

  Brenan, Gerald 166

  Brewerton, George (KES master) 16

  brigades, infantry: 3rd Reserve 93, 103, 104

  7th (in attack on Ovillers) 163-5

  14th (Smith’s to July 1916) 178

  74th (JRRT’s) 148-9, 150, 157, 158, 162-3, 166, 168, 171, 172, 197, 198, 199, 247

  Britain see England

  Brísingamen 271

  Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase 103, 112, 114-15, 246

  Brogan, Hugh 291

  ‘Tolkien’s Great War’ 289, 293

  Brooke, Rupert 39, 64

  ‘The Soldier’ 26, 71-2

  Brooks, William George (Cambridgeshires) 156

  Brough Hall Camp, Yorkshire 82

  Browning, Robert 122

  ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’ 13

  Bunyan, John: The Pilgrim’s Progress 296

  Burne-Jones, Edward 14

  Bus-lès-Artois, France 173, 189fn.

  Calais, France 143

  Calumoth (goblins) 218fn.; see also kalimbardi

  Cambrai, Battle of (1917) 242, 250fn.

  Cambridge 9, 24, 27, 32, 54, 56, 63, 251

  Cherry Hinton Camp 58, 63

  Peterhouse 4, 31

  Trinity College 7, 31

  Cambridgeshire Battalion (11th Suffolks) 57, 77, 82-3, 101, 102, 115, 143, 152-7, 158, 169, 170, 179, 295

  Candas, France 201

  Cannock Chase, Staffordshire 95, 103-4, 115, 134, 245, 246, 273

  Canziani, Eleanor: The Piper of Dreams 77

  Carpenter, Humphrey: J. R. R. Tolkien: A biography 14, 81fn., 149, 189, 250fn.

  Carrington, Charles (1/5th Warwickshires subaltern) 162

  Soldier from the Wars Returning 302, 303

  A Subaltern’s War 162, 164, 167, 168, 299

  Cecil, Hugh: The Flower of Battle 311

  Celbaros (Cheltenham) 207fn.

  Chambers, R. W.: Widsith 229, 230

  Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales 4, 15, 33, 60, 87, 107, 224

  Cheddar caves 134

  Cheltenham 29, 43, 240, 242

  and Celbaros 207fn.

  Chequers Club (Exeter College) 31, 36, 37

  Cheshire Regiment, 13th Battalion 148-9

  Chesterton, G. K. 64

  ‘The Ethics of Elfland’ 113

  Churchill, Winston 49

  Clarke, Arthur C. 221

  Classics and Classicism 3-4, 12, 13, 16, 18, 25, 26, 29, 30, 42-3, 219, 290; see also Greek and Latin

  Clevedon, Somerset 134

  Coalbiters 281

  Codford St Mary, Wiltshire 102, 111, 252

  Coldstream Guards, 1st Battalion 111, 250

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: ‘Kubla Khan’ 36

  Colincamps, France 173

  Constable, Mrs Strickland 239

  Cornwall 28, 40, 59

  Cortirion (Warwick) 207fn; see also Kortirion

  Cottage of Lost Play

  (1) in poem (properly the Cottage of the Play of Sleep) 72-3, 226-7, 228

  (2) in the Lonely Isle 225-6, 227, 258, 270, 280

  Cottrell, George Frederick (KES) 250fn. courage and heroism 43, 46, 69, 71, 118, 136-7, 156, 198-9, 265, 266, 267, 269, 289, 290, 293, 294-5, 299, 300, 302-6, 310, 311, 312

  Craigie, William A. 33, 249

  Crichton, John Drummond (KES) 250fn.

  Cromarty Firth 116

  Cullis, Colin (Exeter College) 36, 49, 249, 250

  Cynewulf: Crist 44-5, 53, 227

  Daily Mail 22

  Danigwethl 213fn.; see also Taniquetil

  d’Ardenne, Simonne 189

  Davies, W. H. 64

  Dead Marshes 310-11

  Deakin, Dorothea (RWR’s wife) 279

  death see immortality

  de la Mare, Walter 64

  Delville Wood, France 182

  demons 127

  the Devil 221; see also Satan, Melko

  Dibgate Plateau camp (1912) 24-5

  Dimlington, Holderness 243

  disenchantment xi, 274, 301-5

  divisions, infantry: 25th (Tolkien’s) 144, 158, 161, 163, 167, 170, 173, 178-9, 188, 189-90, 198, 199, 295

  32nd (Smith’s to July 1916) 110-11, 138, 143-4

  34th (Gilson’s) 138, 158

  49th (Smith’s from July 1916) 178

  Dixon, Arthur (19th LF subaltern) 118-19

  Door(s) of Night 45, 90, 91

  Douie, Charles: The Weary Road 186-7, 196, 298, 302-3, 306

  dragons

  in literature and tradition 13, 16, 98

  in Tolkien’s w
orks 127, 267, 304, 308; and tanks 220-1, 294, 298

  Dryden, John 81, 82

  du Maurier, Gerald 48

  Dunn, Frederick (11th LF officer) 162

  Dwarves 98, 271; as Bilbo’s companions 307-8

  dyscatastrophe 264, 270, 309

  Eärendel/Éarendel (star mariner) 44-7, 53, 63, 80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 91, 92, 96, 97, 127, 128, 214, 217, 229, 241, 272, 294; Eärendl 214; see also ‘The Voyage of Éarendel’ under Tolkien, J. R. R., poetry

  Earp, Thomas Wade (Exeter College) 50, 93, 116, 117, 249

  Easington, Holderness 243, 251

  Easter Rising, Ireland 141

  Ecthelin (Edith Tolkien) 207fn.

  Edward VII 24

  Edwards, William Ian (11th LF Lewis Gun officer) 171, 239

  Eldamar 80, 81, 126, 216; Eglamar 84; see also Elvenhome

  Eldar 75, 121, 124, 126, 258, 260, 274, 275, 298; see also Elves

  elda ‘beach fay’ 80; see also Solosimpi

  Eldarin, Primitive (invented language) 61, 96, 97, 213

  Eldarissa (Qenya) 212

  Eliot, C. N. E.: A Finnish Grammar 26, 30, 60

  Eliot, T. S.: The Waste Land 71, 288

  Elrond (Eärendel’s son) 282

  Elvenhome 91, 258, 260; see also Eldamar

  Elves 76, 86, 99, 121, 126, 219-20, 221, 241, 254, 258-60, 272-7, 292-3, 298, 299, 308

  exiles from Elvenhome 81, 107-9, 226, 227, 260-1, 272-3

  fading 75, 107-8, 112, 258, 274, 275

  mission among mortals 80, 107, 113, 126, 227, 266

  stature 38, 75, 217

  in tradition and literature 98, 107-8, 220, 261, 292

  see also Eldar, fairies, Gnomes, Shadow-folk

  Elvish 96, 97; see also (Primitive) Eldarin, Gnomish, Goldogrin, Qenya, and Sindarin

  Elwing (Eärendel’s wife) 272

  enchantment 63, 74, 90, 95, 221, 227, 262, 272, 304, 309

  England (or Britain)

  ancient 42, 98

  and Faërie 78, 107-9

  TCBS members on 68, 105, 106, 111, 133, 136-7, 185

  and Tolkien 11-12, 41, 42, 58, 104, 130, 133, 174

  and Tolkien’s mythology 107, 126, 144-5, 224-5, 229-30, 259, 273, 278, 297, 307; see also the Lonely Isle

  and war 21-2, 23, 37, 39, 40-1, 50, 72, 92, 128, 152, 233, 243, 248

  ennoblement 275-6

  Ents 108, 312

  Enu (God) 125; see also Ilúvatar

  Eremandos (hell) 127

  Erinti (Vala of love) 126, 128, 228, 257fn.

  Erintion (second half of January) 128fn.

  Eriol (a mariner) 224-5, 226, 227, 245, 256, 258, 259, 275, 276, 297

  and ancient Europe 224-5, 236, 243-4, 273, 278

  and ‘The Book of Lost Tales’ 229, 259, 273-4, 297

  and Tolkien 225, 246, 310

  Ernst, Max: Celebes 221

  Erskine Macdonald (publishers) 246

  escape and escapism 46-7, 77-8, 106-7, 216, 268, 287, 293-4, 297, 298, 299

  Estirin (Exeter) 128

  Étaples, France 112, 143-4, 147

  eucatastrophe 264-5, 304-6, 309

  Europe see Aryador, Great Lands

  Evers, Reverend Mervyn S. (11th LF padre) 157, 167, 188, 197, 198-9, 200

  Ewart, Wilfrid 311

  Exeter College, Oxford 3, 14, 24, 25-6, 29-30, 33-5, 37, 48-9, 63, 81, 249

  Essay Club 31, 34, 36, 52-3, 64, 249

  Skeat Prize 35

  Stapeldon Society 31, 35, 36, 47, 49

  war casualties 250

  Faërie xiii, 38, 72-8, 86, 113, 120-4, 128, 212, 227, 259, 261-2, 292-3

  in mortal lands 107-8, 126, 226-7, 272; see also Artanor, Aryador, Gondolin, Kortirion, the Lonely Isle

  over the sea 80-1, 83-4, 86, 90, 108, 126, 226-7, 259, 296-7; see also Eldamar, Elvenhome, Kôr

  Fafnir 267

  Failivrin 268-9, 270

  fairies

  in literature and tradition 13, 14, 74, 75-8, 80, 107-8, 217, 261-2, 275

  in Tolkien (generally synonymous with ‘Elves’, q.v.) 14, 36, 38, 73-6, 80-1, 107, 109, 126, 127, 145, 217, 224, 225, 258, 260, 261-2, 274

  fairy-story, fairy tales 13, 113, 120, 224, 227, 229, 261, 269, 274, 280

  and war 77-8, 221, 264-5, 292-3, 296-8, 303, 309

  Fangorn Forest 108

  Faramir 310

  Faring Forth (expedition against Melko) 228, 273, 278, 280

  Farnell, Lewis R. (Exeter College classics don and Rector) 29-30, 37, 42, 49

  Farnell, Sylvia 37

  Farnley Park, Otley (signals school) 134, 190

  Fawcett-Barry, Patrick Francis Jervoise (11th LF officer) 171, 234

  Fëanor (Elven craftsman) 280, 295

  Fentor (lord of dragons) 127

  Finland 51; language 26, 30, 60, 61, 213; see also Kalevala

  Finn (in Germanic legend) 34, 43

  Fladweth Amrod (in the Lonely Isle) 246

  Flieger, Verlyn: A Question of Time 296-7

  Flinding 270

  Folkestone 24-5, 137, 143

  Forceville, France 170

  Ford, Ford Madox 287

  Fovant, Wiltshire 252

  Franqueville, France 190, 199

  Freyja 271

  Fróda 43

  Frotho 34

  Frye, Northrop: The Anatomy of Criticism 302, 305

  Fui (a Vala) 256

  Fullerphones 192 and fn.

  Fussell, Paul: The Great War and Modern Memory 289, 290, 296, 302

  Galadriel 108, 228 and fn.

  Gallipoli landings (1915) 69, 119

  Gamgee, Leonard (RAMC officer) 206

  Gamgee, Sampson 206

  Gamgee, Samwise 206, 310

  Gandalf 218fn.

  Gaskin, Thomas (11th LF batman) 171

  Gautisk (invented language) 17 and fn., 60

  Gedling, Nottinghamshire: Phoenix Farm 41, 44

  George V 23, 42, 88

  Georgian Poetry (anthology) 64

  German language 16, 192; Old High German 15; other ancestral stages 34, 45, 63, 98, 230

  “Germanic” ideal 42, 71, 128

  Germanic legend 34, 42-3, 53, 86-7, 96, 98, 227, 229, 298, 307

  peoples 33, 42, 130, 133, 213, 224, 236, 243-4

  Germans in Tolkien’s mythology 128, 218-19

  Gézaincourt, France 201

  Gibbs, Philip 221

  Gilfanon (Gnome of Tavrobel) 274

  Gimli 311

  Gilson, Emily Annie (RQG’s mother) 27, 319

  Gilson, Hugh Cary (RQG’s half-brother) 169-70

  Gilson, John Cary (RQG’s half-brother) 169-70

  Gilson, Marianne Caroline (née Dunstall; RQG’s stepmother ‘Donna’) 115, 156, 169, 170

  Gilson, Mary Dorothea (RQG’s sister Molly) 156, 169, 206

  Gilson, Robert Cary (RQG’s father) 5, 16, 17, 19fn., 22-3, 30, 56, 57, 156, 169, 179, 182, 183, 218

  Gilson, Robert Quilter (TCBS member) xii, 6, 7-8, 19fn., 27

  at Cambridge 7, 50, 54, 56

  ‘Carellus Helveticulus’ 19fn.

  character and personality 6-7, 21, 55-6, 57, 102, 116, 122, 124, 146-7, 253

  death and grave 8, 156, 169-70, 193fn.

  at King Edward’s School 5, 18, 21, 23, 25, 27

  love affair 100, 101, 115

  and Smith 102-3, 168, 174, 179

  and TCBS 6, 18, 32, 54, 55, 56, 57-8, 63, 101-2, 104-5, 137, 175-6

  and JRRT 17fn., 19, 27, 33, 54, 55, 63, 100, 101, 115, 117, 129-30

  on JRRT and JRRT’s poetry 16, 43-4, 119

  visits Wiseman 47-8

  on war 150-1, 186, 188, 265

  war service 41, 56-7, 63, 82-3, 94, 95, 101, 102, 116, 117-18, 143, 146-7, 152-6

  Gipsy Green, Teddesley Hay, Staffordshire 246

  Glamdring (Gandalf’s sword) 218fn. 387

  Glamhoth (goblins) 218fn.; see also kalimbardi

  Gloomweaver 241, 258, 264; see also Spider of Night

  Glorund 267, 268, 269, 271, 304

  Gnomes (secon
d tribe of Elves) 38, 39, 76, 126, 214-15, 218, 219, 213, 217-19, 222-3, 241, 259, 260; see also Noldoli

  Tolkien’s use of the word gnome 76

  Gnomish (invented language) 126, 207 and fn., 212-14, 218fn., 236, 237, 246, 263, 278; see also Goldogrin

  Goblins 76, 98, 218-19; see also Orcs, kalimbardi

  gods 86, 112-13, 125, 256; see also Valar

  Golding, William 300

  Lord of the Flies 300

  Goldogrin (invented language) 212, 213 and fn., 220, 236, 247

  Gondolin 39, 187, 214, 266, 272, 294; see also ‘The Fall of Gondolin’ under Tolkien, J. R. R., stories

  Gordon, Eric Valentine (Leeds University) 278

  Gothic language 16, 34, 60, 63, 97

  and the Great Twin Brethren 16-17, 55, 232

  Gough, General Hubert (Fifth Army commander) 200

  Grahame, Kenneth 93

  Grand Fleet, British 119, 141-2

  Graves, Robert 288, 289, 290, 291, 296, 300, 303

  ‘Babylon’ (Fairies and Fusiliers) 292

  Fairies and Fusiliers 77, 109

  Good-bye to All That 249, 294, 301

  Great Haywood, Staffordshire 134-5, 144, 145, 207, 231

  Great Lands (mainland Europe) 227, 243-4, 260, 261, 272, 273

  Great Twin Brethren (JRRT and CLW) 5, 17, 20, 55, 56, 58, 137, 232

  Greece 26, 30, 51, 229

  Greek language 4, 13, 14-15, 16, 18, 22, 30, 98, 116

  Greenwich 87, 101

  Grey-elves 213

  Grein, C. W. M. and Wülcker, R. P.: Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie 44

  Grimm, Jakob 87, 98

  Grimm’s Law 15, 61, 62

  Grote, George: A History of Greece 26

 

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