In commemoration of the next Hobbit movie’s premiere
tonight, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester will display a WWI pistol
possessed by J.R.R. Tolkien (the author of the Hobbit) this month. The gun is a
Wembley Mk V, which was the standard British service revolver during the war. Tolkien
served in the trenches for the first part of World War I. He had always had a
knack for creating languages and writing stories, but he didn’t start writing
about middle-earth until WWI. He began writing bits and pieces of the Silmarillion in the trenches (contrary
to the claims of the article). The Silmarillion
was a comprehensive history of middle-earth and truly was his first and last
work because the book remains unfinished. His son, Christopher Tolkien, compiled
his father’s stories and notes about the Silmarillion
and had them published in the book found in the bookstores today.
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