托尔金为什么写魔戒(托尔金创作"魔戒"的原因)?

J.R.R. Tolkien began writing The Lord of the Rings before World War II, starting in 1937 and completing it in 1949. While it is true to say that the war affected the book, with Tolkien working as an air raid warden in Oxford throughout the war, the greatest influence on his writing was actually the First World War. Tolkien had just graduated when he and his three closest friends, members of a society they had formed called the TCBS, joined the army. Tolkien himself fought in the famous Battle of the Somme, but was sent home due to trench fever. Of his three friends, two were killed, including one named G.B. Smith who wrote Tolkien a final letter expressing his grief at the loss of their friend Rob Gilson, the first of their group to die. In the letter, Smith urged the surviving members to carry on the spirit of the TCBS, to create and achieve in their stead. This letter deeply affected Tolkien, and became even more significant after Smith's death. Within days of receiving it, Tolkien began to gather his own materials for his epic, inspired by the memory of Smith and Gilson. Everything was done for the sake of the TCBS, for Rob Gilson and G.B. Smith.