World War I

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Tolkien fought in World War I and profoundly influenced by his experiences in it and is where many of his ideas for the battles in Middle-earth may have come from.

A good article on WWI's influence on Tolkien and LOTR: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngbeyond/rings/influences.html

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