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Abbeville, France 148
Abercrombie, Lascelles 64
Acheux, France 179
Ælfwine 278
Æschylus 25, 30
Ainur (‘gods’ or angels) 125, 254-5, 275, 306
Music of the Ainur 254-6, 275-6, 301, 304, 306
Aisne, Battle of the (1918) 247
Alalminórë (Warwickshire) 107, 126
Albert, King of Belgium 49
Albert, France 46, 112, 146, 151, 162, 169, 199
Aldershot camp (1910) 24
Aldington, Richard 311
Alfred, King 229
George Allen & Unwin (publishers) 282-3
Altham, Abraham Clifford (11th LF intelligence officer) 171, 172
Amiens, France 146, 148
Amillion (February) 128fn.
Amillo (a Vala) 126, 128 and fn., 257fn.
Ancre River/valley, France 158, 159, 161, 162, 172, 178, 191
Ancrene Riwle (Middle English religious text) 51
Andersen, Hans Christian 13
Angaino (a giant) 127
Angamandos (hell) 127; see also Angband Angband 263-4, 266, 268; hell 221-2
angels 113, 220, 255, 256, 277; see also Ainur, Valar
‘Angel(s) of Mons’ 85-6
Anglo-Saxons 42, 52, 95-6, 98, 106, 229, 234; Angles 243
language see Old English
and Tolkien’s mythology 46, 53, 96, 97, 225, 256, 278
Animalic (invented language) 225
Annwn (Welsh Otherworld) 107
Antwerp 48
Apolausticks (Exeter College club) 31, 36
Arden (11th LF batman) 171
Aristophanes 18
Armentières, France 117
Army, British see individual units
Fifth 199, 200
Second 199
Arnold, Matthew 281
Arras, Battle of (1917) 234, 311
Artanor (faëry woodland realm) 261, 265, 266, 267, 271-2
Arthur, King 32, 122
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
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 works 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 (second 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
Grove, Jennie (EMT’s cousin) 134, 232, 234, 240, 246, 249
Guingelot (Wade’s boat) 86-7
Gwendeling (queen of Artanor) 262, 271
Habbanan (purgatorial plain) 112, 113, 127
Haggard, Henry Rider 290
She 20fn., 78, 79, 80
Haig, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas (British Army commander-in-chief) 147, 200, 305
Hammer of Wrath (battalion of Gondolin) 294, 295, 299
Hammond, Wayne G. 281
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles 266
Harrison (11th LF batman) 171
Harrogate, Yorkshire 232, 233
Havelock the Dane 63
Hédauville, France 178, 190
hemlock 238 and fn.
Hengest 43, 224-5
Henley, W. E. 93
Heorrenda (Eriol’s son) 229, 273
heroism see courage
Herrick, Robert 102
Hessian Trench, France 194, 195, 196-7, 198, 199
Higgins, H. L. (KES) 250fn.
High Heath, Battle of the 273-4, 278
High Wood, France 182
Hill of Death 266
Hitler, Adolf 42, 96, 223, 293
The Hobbit, see under Tolkien, J.R.R., stories
hobbits 226, 264, 282-3, 305
Holderness peninsula 234-9, 242-4
Homer 13, 17
Iliad 42, 43
Odyssey 116, 135
Hornsea, Holderness 234, 239, 240
Horsa 43, 224-5
Housman, A. E.: A Shropshire Lad 26
Huan (talking hound) 263
Hull: Brooklands Officers’ Hospital 239-40, 242, 246, 247-8
Humber Garrison 234, 238, 245, 248; see also Lancashire Fusiliers, 3rd, and Royal Defence Corps, 9th
Huxley, Aldous: ‘Glastonbury’ 67fn.
Huxtable, Leslie Risdon (11th LF subaltern) 190, 193, 194, 235, 239
Hynes, Samuel: A War Imagined 287, 289, 301-2
Ibsen, Henrik 105
Icelandic and Old Norse 33, 34, 63, 95, 281
Idril (Elf of Gondolin) 214, 217
Ilmarinen 51
Ilmatar 25
Ilu (high airs) 127
ilúindo (heavenly dwellings) 127
Iluvatar 125, 254, 255, 258, 265, 266, 275, 276-7, 301, 306
immortality and death 109, 112-13, 126, 260, 264-5, 275-7, 283, 306, 309
in fairy tradition 78, 107
Smith’s views 118, 181-2, 210, 211-12
Wiseman’s views 232, 253
see also Peter Pan under Barrie and She under Haggard
Incledon, Marjorie (JRRT’s cousin) 83, 225
Incledon, Mary (JRRT’s cousin) 83, 225
and Nevbosh 15
Incledon, May (JRRT’s aunt) 83
Incledon, Walter (JRRT’s uncle) 83
Indian Civil Service 57
Indo-European 15, 60, 96, 98
Ing (in Germanic legend) 34
Ingil (Inwë’s son) 126; Ingilmo 127
Ingilnórë (England) 126
Ingwë (in the ‘Silmarillion’) 228
Inklings 282
Invincible, HMS 142
Inwë (Elven king over the sea) 126, 228
Inweli (royal house of fairies) 126; see also Teleri
Inwinórë (‘Faëry’) 80, 126
Ireland 141, 273
Eriu 96
Home Rule 22, 230
irony 124, 137, 262, 267-8, 271, 302-5, 309
Irminsûl (Germanic totem) 98
Jellicoe, Admiral Sir John (British Grand Fleet commander) 78
Johnson, Dr Samuel 81, 101
Jutland, Battle of (1916) 142, 146 Kalevala (Finnish epic) 25-6, 50-1, 52, 53, 59, 60, 85, 123, 213, 215, 231, 241, 254, 272
Kalimban (Germany) 128
kalimbardi
(1) Germans 128
(2) goblins 218 and fn.
Kampo 63; see also Eärendel
Karkaras (wolf of Angband) 263, 265
Keats, John 13, 82
‘Ode to a Nightingale’ 89
Kempson, Valentine Harold (11th LF adjutant) 172, 206
Kendrick, Mrs (EMT’s landlady) 134
Kershaw (11th LF batman) 171
King, Estelle 100, 101, 115, 116, 146
King, Wilson (former U.S. consul) 100
King Edward’s Horse 24-5
King Edward’s School, Birmingham 5, 12, 13, 16, 18
anthem 22
Chronicle 8, 20, 23, 25, 27, 28, 52, 249
classicism 19fn., 290
debating society 21-2, 27, 183
Greek Plays 18
houses (Measures’, Richards’) 4-5, 6, 7, 20, 106
Library 5, 6, 25, 27, 78-9
Literary Society 5
Officer Training Corps 21, 22-4
Old Edwardians 14, 31, 41, 182, 183, 185, 206
rugby 3, 4-5, 6-8, 18, 32
Sports Day 156
war casualties 250 and fn.
Kipling, Rudyard 93
Kirkby, W. H. (KES master) 23
Kitchener, Lord Horatio 23, 37, 40, 42, 143
Koivië-néni 241; see also Waters of Awakening
Kôr (capital of Elvenhome) 78, 79-81, 83, 91, 107, 108, 113, 126, 213, 216, 226, 227, 241, 259, 260, 272, 294
in Haggard’s She 78-80
Kortirion (Warwick) 107, 108, 109, 110, 126, 187, 207fn., 226, 228; see also ‘Kortirion among the Trees’ under Tolkien, J. R. R., poetry
Kullervo 26, 241; see The Story of Kullervo under Tolkien, J. R. R., stories
La Boisselle, France 161, 163, 164, 166, 167, 295
battle for 154, 155, 158
Laketown 308
Lamps (that light the world) 258, 259
Lancashire Fusiliers
3rd (Reserve) Battalion 232, 234, 235, 239
11th (Service) Battalion xii, 144, 147-50, 152, 157-8, 161-7, 168, 170-3, 176 and fn., 178-9, 188-90, 191-5, 196-201, 206, 239, 245, 246, 294, 295
13th (Reserve) Battalion 88, 89, 93-5, 103-4, 114-15, 190
19th (Service) Battalion (‘3rd Salford Pals’) 64fn., 67, 68-9, 82, 89, 101, 103, 110-12, 118, 119, 154, 159-60, 161, 177, 178, 209, 210, 245, 246, 295
Lang, Andrew: Fairy Books 13, 77, 263
Larkin, Philip 21
Latin 4, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22, 30, 52, 184
Leeds University 278
Le Havre, France 111, 205
Leipzig Salient, France 159, 160, 163, 188
Lemminkäinen 25, 51
Lenin, V. I. 223, 242
Le Touquet: Duchess of Westmorland Hospital 201, 205
Lewis, C. S. 281-2, 290, 311, 312
Lichfield, Earls of 103, 134
Lichnowsky, Prince Karl Max (German ambassador) 37
limpë (fairy drink) 126
Lincolnshire Regiment, 10th Battalion (Grimsby Chums) 153
Lindo (Elf of the Cottage of Lost Play) 225, 227
Lindrick Camp, Yorkshire 82
Lirillion (first half of January) 128fn. Lirillo (Vala of song) 126, 128
London 23, 104-5, 133, 143
Routh Road, Wandsworth 47, 57, 58, 105
Lonely Isle 127-8; see also under Tolkien, J. R. R., poetry
Lönnrot, Elias: Kalevala 50-1
Loos, Battle of (1915) 102
The Lord of the Rings, see under Tolkien, J.R.R., stories
Lórien Olofantur (Vala of dreams) 241, 256, 262
Loseby, Geoffrey (11th LF subaltern) 171
Lothlórien 228
Loyal North Lancashires, 9th Battalion 148, 198
Louvain, destruction of 41, 133
Lucas, Frank Laurence 56-7
Tragedy: Serious drama in relation to Aristotle’s Poetics 306
Mabinogion 7, 55, 122, 195, 213, 236, 296
Macaulay, Thomas Babington: Lays of Ancient Rome 20, 229, 230, 290
Macdonald, Alexander: The Lost Explorers 79
MacDonald, George
‘Curdie’ books 76
‘The Fantastic Imagination’ 77
The Princess and the Goblin 13, 77
Machen, Arthur: ‘The Bowmen’ 86
machines 43, 165, 190-1, 220-3, 300, 308, 311
Mailly-Maillet, France 173
Makar (Vala of battle) 125, 128, 257
Manchester Regiment, 2nd Battalion 117fn.
Mandos
(1) hell 127
(2) Vala of death 241, 256, 265, 283
manimuinë (Purgatory) 127
Manning, Frederic: The Middle Parts of Fortune 299
Manwë (chief of the Valar) 241, 256, 257, 266; see also Súlimi
Marlowe, Christopher 81
Marsh, Edward (ed.): Georgian Poetry 64
Marston Green, Warwickshire (Gilson family home) 95, 101, 102, 156
Mar Vanwa Tyalieva 225, 228; see also Cottage of Lost Play
Masefield, John: The Old Front Line 163
Mash Valley, France 154, 161, 164
Mavwin (mother of Túrin Turambar) 266, 268
Méassë (Vala of slaughter) 257
Measures, A. E. (‘Algy’, KES master) 18
medievalism 14, 34, 39-40, 121, 244, 288-92; see also Middle Ages
Meglin 218, 222, 223
Melko (fallen Vala) 215, 216, 218, 222-3, 240, 241, 255-8, 260, 264, 266, 268, 269, 271, 272, 275, 277, 294, 300, 305; Melkor 222; Morgoth 222, 236
Mellor, R.: ‘Ode to a Fullerphone’ 192fn. Men (mortals, humans) 35, 48, 74, 75, 76, 86, 94, 95-100, 121, 123, 126, 127, 215, 217, 219, 258, 269-70, 272, 273-7, 296-7
Mercia (Anglo-Saxon kingdom) 95
Meril-i-Turinqi (Elf-queen of the Lonely Isle) 228
Messines, Battle of (1917) 239
Metcalfe, John Christian Prideaux
Eamonson (11th LF officer) 172, 190, 198, 295
Middle-earth xi, 3-4, 39, 113, 236, 258fn., 287, 289, 293, 299, 304, 309
Middangeard (Old English) 43, 44
Middle Ages 251, 256
Middle English 15, 51-2, 63, 64, 278
Mielikki 25
Milne, A. A. 114
Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire 283, 284
Milton, John 13, 221, 296, 298, 306
Paradise Lost 50, 255
Minas Tirith 312
Minden, Battle of (1759) 68, 173, 192, 239, 240
miruvórë (divine drink) 97, 126
Mitton, Mabel (née Tolkien; JRRT’s aunt) 207
Mitton, Thomas Ewart (JRRT’s cousin) 207, 250
Mitton, Tom (JRRT’s uncle) 207
modernism 288, 290, 291, 293
Mons, Battle of (1914) 40, 41, 85-6
Moon 45-6, 60, 65-6, 81, 84, 91, 126-7, 258, 261
Man in the Moon see Uole-mi-Kume and ‘Why the Man in the Moon came down too soon’ under Tolkien, J.R.R., poetry
Morannon (Black Gate of Mordor) 310
Mordor 96, 310
Morgan, Father Francis (JRRT’s guardian) 12, 16, 29, 48, 129, 138, 242
Morgoth 39, 222, 236; see also Melko
Moria 80
Mormakil (Túrin Turambar) 269
Morris, William 14, 26, 34, 40, 290, 312
The Earthly Paradise 185, 224, 296
The House of the Wolfings 35, 219, 310
The Life and Death of Jason 35
The Roots of the Mountains 310
Volsunga Saga (trs) 35
The Well at the World’s End 215, 296
Morris Jones, John: A Welsh Grammar 35
mortals see Men
Morton, Major Philip (Cambridgeshires) 155-6, 170 and fn.
Morwen (Jupiter) 62, 127; see also Voronwë
Mount Kemmel, Belgium 247
Mouquet Farm, France 194, 195
Munday, E. (11th LF adjutant) 206
Murphy, C. C. R.: History of the Suffolk Regiment 150
Naffarin (invented language) 16
Naimi (Eriol’s elven wife) 229
Napier, A. S. (Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon) 33
Nardi (flower fairy) 126 National Observer 93
nationalism 21, 51-2, 58, 110, 229-30 The Navy Book of Fairy Tales 78
Neave, Jane (JRRT’s aunt) 41, 44
Necklace of the Dwarves 271-2
Neuve-Chapelle, Battle of (1915) 64
Nevbosh (invented language) 15
New English Dictionary 249
Newbolt, Sir Henry: ‘Vitaï Lampada’ 21
Niëliqi (maiden of the Valar) 125
Nierninwa (Sirius) 127
Níniel 267, 268, 269, 270
Nînin Udathriol (Battle of Unnumbered Tears) 241
Noldoli (Gnomes; sg. Noldo) 121, 124, 126, 128, 214, 216, 219-20, 221, 259; Noldor (in the ‘Silmarillion’) 213
Noldomar (land of Gnomes) 126
Noldor 213
Noldorin (a Vala) 128, 241, 257fn.; see also Lirillo
Normans 34, 52, 130, 133
Norse mythology and sagas 5, 33, 34, 86-7, 127, 222, 227, 257, 271
nostalgia 72, 73, 106, 108, 109, 132, 136, 181, 189, 297-8
Númenor 53, 236
Oaritsi (mermaids) 125
Odin 256, 257
Oedipus 270
Officer Training Corps (OTC) see under King Edward’s School and Oxford
Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) 16, 34, 42, 44-5, 51-2, 96, 220, 277, 278, 291
Old High German 15
Old Norse see Icelandic
Onions, Oliver 311
Orcs 127, 220, 241, 268-9, 299, 308; see also Goblins
Orkney Islands 141, 143
Oromë (huntsman of the Valar) 241, 256
Orwell, George 300
Nineteen Eighty-four 223
Ossë (Vala of the seas) 237, 241, 259
Ottor Wœfre (Eriol) 225
Ovillers, France 161, 163-8, 171, 172, 177, 189, 194, 195, 299
Ovillers Post, France 195, 196, 199
Owen, Wilfred 117fn., 288, 289, 291, 295, 300, 301, 302, 303, 312
‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ 288
‘Dulce et decorum est’ 300-1
‘Soldier’s Dream’ 266
The Owl and the Nightingale (Middle English poem) 64
Oxford 35, 49, 95, 105, 128, 130, 133, 216, 225, 243, 248, 278, 294
St John Street 49, 67, 72, 83, 249, 250, 277
Oxford Magazine 57, 116
Oxford Poetry 1915 101, 102, 116, 120
Oxford University 35, 48-9, 57, 68, 82, 131-2; see also Exeter College
Anglo-German Club 37
Corpus Christi College 7, 31, 52
Magdalen College 57, 64, 281
Merton College 249, 283
Newdigate Prize 67 and fn.
Officer Training Corps 24, 37, 50, 83
war casualties 9, 250
see also Exeter College
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 48
8th Battalion 57, 67
‘Pals’ battalions 68
Paracelsus 76
Paris 129, 147, 189
Passchendaele, Battle of (‘Third Ypres’, 1917) 239, 250
Path of Dreams (to Valinor) 227; cf. ‘the magic track’ 73
Patterson, H. (KES) 250fn.
Payton, Ralph Stuart (‘the Baby’; TCBS member) 19fn., 27, 31, 57, 68, 110, 182, 250
Payton, Wilfrid Hugh (‘Whiffy’; TCBS member) 18, 19fn., 21, 23, 27, 55, 57, 182-3
Penkridge Camp, Cannock Chase 104, 110, 246
Penmaenmawr, Wales 67, 82
Peter Pan see Barrie, J. M.
Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing: The Big Drum 105
Poetic Edda 33
Pools of Twilight (scene of battle) 241
Pope, Alexander 116, 281
Potts, G. A. (11th LF subaltern) 173
Pound, Ezra 289, 290, 291
Pozières, France 172
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 14, 185
Priestley, J. B. 19, 26
primitivism 60
Princess Caroline (troop ship) 111
Purkiss, Diane: Troublesome Things 292
Qenya (invented language) 60, 61-3, 76, 80, 81, 86, 96, 97, 98, 107, 112, 123, 124-5, 212-13, 218, 220, 225, 228fn., 247, 255
Ramandor 125; see also Makar
Ranon (JRRT) 207fn.
‘Rapunzel’ 263
Reade, Father Vincent (Birmingham) 40, 94
Rednal, Worcestershire 12, 72
Regina Trench, France 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 247
Reynard the Fox 263
Reynolds, Richard William (‘Dickie’; KES master) 13, 76, 93, 101, 120, 279, 280, 290
Reynolds, Lt W. H. (11th LF and 74th Bde signals officer) 144, 158, 171, 176fn.
Rickettsia quintana 200
Rivendell 255
Roberts, Earl Frederick 23
Rodothlim (a Gnomish people) 267, 269
Roman Catholicism 5, 12, 33, 36, 41, 121, 157, 251
romance 14, 35, 47, 85, 215, 218, 219, 288, 290, 296, 302, 305, 312
Romans 15, 219, 229, 310
Romanticism 5, 28, 35, 36, 47, 51, 62, 64, 105, 122, 216, 229, 261, 288, 290, 294, 299
Roos, Holderness 234, 237, 238, 240, 242, 261
Rowson, Stanley (11th LF subaltern) 193
Royal Defence Corps, 9th Battalion 243, 245
Royal Engineers 165, 172, 178, 207
Royal Field Artillery 57, 111
Royal Irish Rifles, 2nd Battalion 149, 157, 164, 167, 168, 197, 198
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
1/5th Battalion (Charles Carrington’s) 162, 167-8, 299
14th Battalion (1st Birmingham Battalion) 41 and fn., 48, 57, 68, 182-3
16th Battalion (3rd Birmingham Battalion) 41 and fn., 48, 68, 182fn.
Ruamórë 127; ‘home of Night’ 53
Ruan Minor, Cornwall 40
Rubempré, France 148
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase 103
Russia 22, 37, 51, 136, 146, 233, 245, 247
language 248
Russian Revolution 106, 223, 237, 239, 242
Sá (the Holy Ghost) 255; see also Secret Fire
‘Salford Pals, 3rd’ see Lancashire Fusiliers
Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire 24, 101, 102, 103, 110-11, 115, 116, 252
Sangahyando (sword) 127
Sanskrit 96, 98
Sarehole, Warwickshire 11-12, 72, 307
Saruman 311
Sassoon, Siegfried 288, 291, 295, 300, 301-2
‘Blighters’ 175
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer 265, 301, 312-13
Satan 222, 255, 257; the Devil 221
Sauron 263, 312
Sausage Valley, France 154, 161
Saxony 42, 130, 133, 189, 243
Scapa Flow 141, 142, 143
Schwaben Redoubt, France 191, 194, 195, 197
Scopes, Frederick (KES) 31, 32, 50
Scott, Captain Robert 22
The Seafarer (Old English poem) 47, 63
Second World War xii, 38, 190, 300, 309
Secret Fire 255, 258
Seddon, Arthur (Cambridgeshires) 169, 170
Sekhet 20 and fn.
Senlis, France 161, 162
Serre, France 173
Shackleton, Sir Ernest 46
Shadow-folk 96, 99, 100 and fn., 112, 215, 259
Shakespeare, William 33, 81 and fn., 82, 230, 263, 288
and fairies 96, 81fn., 217, 261-2, 275, 298
Shaw, George Bernard 7, 105
Sheaf 34
Shippey, Thomas A. 66, 81fn., 272, 298, 300, 308, 311
Shugborough Park, Staffordshire 134
Sidgwick & Jackson (publishers) 119, 134, 231
signalling, military 103, 114-15, 124, 134, 144, 150, 158, 161, 165-6, 167, 171-2, 178-9, 190, 192 and fn., 193, 194, 196, 197-8, 206, 234, 235, 239
Sigurd 16, 127, 270
The Silmarillion, see under Tolkien, J.R.R., stories
Silmarils (elven jewels) 262, 265, 272, 280
Silmo (the Moon) 126
Sindarin 213
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English poem) 249, 278, 290
Sisam, Kenneth 34, 278
sky-myths 45-7, 65-7, 126-7, 258, 272-3
slang, First World War 86, 124
Sleeper in the Tower of Pearl 91, 92, 226fn. Smaug 267, 308
Smith, Geoffrey Bache (TCBS member) xii, 7,8
character and personality 7, 22, 55, 56, 56, 195-6, 209
at Corpus Christi, Oxford 7, 31-2, 36, 52
death 8, 211
and Gilson 102-3, 168, 174, 179
at King Edward’s School 18, 22
sobriquets 17fn., 18
and TCBS 6, 27, 54, 56, 57-8, 101-2, 103, 129, 136, 137, 150, 177, 178, 179, 180, 185
and Tolkien 7, 31-2, 55, 56, 82, 83, 88, 89, 122, 129, 135-6, 145, 150, 161, 176, 177-8, 179-80, 185, 190, 206, 250, 308
and Tolkien’s poetry 53, 64, 65, 67, 69-70, 72, 106, 117, 118-19, 173-4, 186, 253, 274, 279, 281
war service 56, 57, 67-8, 69, 82, 94, 95, 110-12, 117, 118-19, 124, 135, 154, 159-61, 177-8, 209-10, 287
poetry 26-7, 106, 116-17, 279, 287
‘Ave Atque Vale’ 57
‘The Burial of Sophocles’ 95, 111, 112, 211-12
‘For R. Q. G.’ 181
‘Glastonbury’ 67
‘Legend’ 123
‘Let us tells quiet stories of kind eyes’ 181-2
‘April 1916’ 135, 136
‘On the Declaration of War’ 39
‘Songs on the Downs’ 102
A Spring Harvest 174, 181-2, 210, 246, 274, 301
‘To the Cultured’ 175
Smith, Roger (GBS’s brother) 233
Smith, Ruth Annie (GBS’s mother) 111, 211, 212, 233
Smith, Thomas (GBS’s father) 27, 319
Solosimpë and pl. Solosimpi or Solosimpeli (shoreland fairies) 80, 81, 121, 124, 126, 259
Somme, Battle of the (1916) 161-8, 169, 170-3, 177, 178-9, 182-3, 187-95, 196-9, 201, 210, 211, 221, 291, 294-5, 300-1, 310, 312-13
approach of 146-51
and the ‘Battle of Unnumbered Tears’ 266, 298
Sophocles 25, 30
Oedipus Rex 270
Souastre, France 211
South Africa 11, 50, 242, 260, 295; see also Boer War
Southampton, Hampshire 111, 205
Sow, River, Staffordshire 134, 207
Spanish 16, 247
Spell of Bottomless Dread (Melko’s) 215, 222, 223, 266
Spenser, Edmund 76
Spider of Night 53, 127, 241, 258; see also Gloomweaver
spiders of Mirkwood 64
Spurn Point, Holderness 235, 243
Stainforth, Colonel L. C. H. (19th LF commanding officer) 82, 83, 89
Stevenson, R. L.:
‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ 219
‘The Land of Nod’ 78
The Story of Kullervo, see under Tolkien, J.R.R., stories
Suffield, John (Tolkien’s grandfather) 13
Suffolk Regiment, 11th Battalion see Cambridgeshire Battalion
Súlimi (Valar of the winds) 125; see also Manwë, Varda
Sumner, Sydney (11th LF soldier) 193
Sun 45-6, 60, 65, 81, 84, 91, 109, 126-7, 261, 275
Magic Sun 228, 258, 273
Sundial Society, Corpus Christi College 52 Superb, HMS 115-16, 119, 141-2
Sutton Veny, Wiltshire 102
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels 275, 276
Taniquetil 83, 84, 126, 213fn., 217
Taruktarna (Oxford) 128
Taunton, Somerset: Queen’s School 254
Tavrobel (Great Haywood) 207 and fn., 272, 273, 246
TCBS (Tea Club and Barrovian Society) 6, 7, 8, 14, 18, 19, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 54-6, 93
‘Council of Bath’ projected 103, 104
‘Council of Harrogate’ 232, 233
‘Council of Lichfield’ 101-2
‘Council of London’ 56-9, 60, 63, 105, 137, 174, 181, 231
‘Council of Oxford’ projected 67
debates over 135-7, 174, 179-81, 182, 18 3-5, 251
last meetings 101-2, 104-6
and members’ betrothals 100-1, 129-30
TCBSianism 5-6, 31, 33, 67, 105-7, 122, 136-7, 141, 146, 161, 174, 180, 251, 253-4, 308-9
‘Tea-Cake’ see Barnsley, T. K.
Tea Club see TCBS
Teleri (first tribe of Elves) 259; see also Inweli
Telimektar (Orion) 127
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 40, 116
Tetillë (flower fairy) 126
Tevildo (Prince of Cats) 127, 263
Théoden 295
Thiepval, France 157, 191, 194
Memorial 193
Ridge 159, 172
Wood 117fn., 186-7, 191-3, 308
Thirtle Bridge Camp, Holderness 234-5, 236, 238, 239, 242, 245
Thompson, Francis 13-14, 36, 47, 261
Thor 180, 256
Tiberth/Tifil 263; see also Tevildo
Tidworth Pennings camp (1909) 24
The Times 83, 163, 221
Timpinen 126; see also Tinfang Warble
Tinfang Warble (fairy piper) 74, 75, 77, 126
Tinúviel (Elf, lover of Beren) 262, 263, 264, 265, 271, 272, 277, 282, 305
Tinwelint (royal father of Tinúviel) 262, 265, 271-2
Tír na nÓg 107
Titanic, sinking of the 22
Tobin, Colonel (Bedford officer) 89
Tol Eressëa (the Lonely Isle, Britain and Ireland) 126, 128, 207fn., 236, 278
Tol Erethrin 207fn., 246
Tolkien, Arthur Reuel (JRRT’s father) 11
Tolkien, Christopher (JRRT’s son) 92, 272, 281, 282
JRRT’s letters to xii, 38, 94, 219, 2 38, 295
Tolkien, Edith (née Bratt; JRRT’s wife) birthday 128fn.
and children’s births 239-40, 242, 282
death 283
engagement and marriage 12, 26, 29, 30, 33, 43, 134-5, 207fn.
and Erinti 128, 228fn.
introduced to TCBS 100-1
involved in Tolkien’s writing 282, 290
and JRRT in wartime 64, 78, 83, 93, 104, 110, 131, 138, 144, 205, 232, 234, 235, 238-9, 245, 246-7
JRRT’s letters to 40, 50, 94
JRRT’s love poem to 72
with JRRT in Oxford 249
Tolkien, Hilary Arthur Reuel (JRRT’s brother) 11, 12, 41, 48, 68, 110, 138
and Amillo 128 and fn., 257fn.
Tolkien, John Francis Reuel (JRRT’s son) 242, 246, 249, 282
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel
birth 11
character and personality 48, 94-5, 110, 278-9
childhood 11-12, 13, 14-15
children 242, 278
death 284
education (at King Edward’s School, Birmingham) 5-6, 8, 12, 13, 16, 18, 21, 23-4
engagement and marriage 33, 43, 100-1, 129, 134, 207fn.; see Tolkien, Edith enlistment 40, 41-2, 43-4, 47, 69, 83, 88
at Exeter College, Oxford 3-4, 12, 24, 25-6, 29-30, 31, 33-5, 36, 37, 48-9, 52-3, 63, 81-2, 83, 130, 249
friendship with Gilson see Gilson, R. Q. friendship with C. S. Lewis 281-2
friendship with Smith see under Smith, G. B.
friendship with Wiseman see under Wiseman, C. L.
health 4, 11, 200-1, 205-6, 207, 231, 232, 233-4, 235, 239-40, 242, 245, 246, 247, 248, 252
identifies with Beren 284; Eriol 225; Lirillo/Noldorin 128 and fn., 257fn.
at military camps 23, 24-5, 50, 89, 93-5, 103-4, 114-15, 134
military service 137, 138, 143, 144, 147-50, 157-8, 162-73, 186-95, 196-200; (after contracting trench fever) 200-1, 205, 207, 231-2, 233-6, 238-40, 242-3, 245, 246-7, 248, 252
post-war career 248-9, 277, 278, 281-3
sobriquets 17fn., 18, 19 and fn.
attitudes, interests and opinions:
bureaucracy 94
France 189
Germans/Germany 41-2, 128-9, 133, 218-19, 289-90, 293, 299-300
invention of languages 15-17, 39, 60, 69, 97, 212, 218, 220; see also Qenya
language and philology 14-15, 26, 30, 32, 33, 34-5, 39-40, 51, 60, 66, 85, 114, 213, 289-92
mythology and mythography 38-40, 84-5, 110, 123-4, 125-8, 186, 187, 217-19, 241, 247, 256ff, 292, 295-7, 301, 303-6
officer class 94, 149
politics 21, 42, 51-2, 110, 230
reading 13, 26, 42, 44, 63-4; see also
Beowulf; Chaucer; Kalevala
religion 5, 12, 113, 121, 157, 173, 251, 266, 306
TCBS membership 6, 14, 18, 27, 31, 54-6, 58-9, 60, 63, 67, 100, 135-7, 179-81, 308
war 38-9, 217-19, 290, 292-300, 301, 309-10, 312
drawings and paintings 12-13, 29, 31, 40
Afterwards 29
Before 29
The End of the World 29, 47
Grownupishness 29
The Land of Pohja 60
The Shores of Faery 81, 83
Undertenishness 29, 64, 65
essays:
‘Beowulf: The Monsters and the
Critics’ 305
‘On Fairy-stories’ 77-8, 113, 264-5, 293
lexicons of invented languages
‘Qenyaqetsa’ (Qenya phonology and lexicon ) 60-1, 63, 81, 83, 98, 104, 107, 123, 126, 127, 212
‘Poetic and Mythologic Words of Eldarissa’ 212, 220
‘I·Lam na·Ngoldathon’ (Goldogrin/Gnomish lexicon) 229, 236, 246
poetry 92-3
‘The Battle of the Eastern Field’ 19-20, 66, 290
‘Companions of the Rose’ 240, 287-8
‘Copernicus and Ptolemy’ 70
‘From the many-willow’d margin of
the immemorial Thames’ 35, 36, 59
‘Goblin Feet’ 73-4, 75, 76, 81fn., 90, 93, 116, 117, 120
‘The Grey Bridge of Tavrobel’ 207-8
‘Habbanan beneath the Stars’ 112-13, 144, 182
‘The Happy Mariners’ 89-91, 92, 106-7, 110, 120
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
Beorhthelm’s Son (verse drama) 43
‘The Horns of Ulmo’ see ‘The Tides’
‘Iumbo, or ye Kinde of ye Oliphaunt’ 97-8
‘Kôr’ 78-81
‘Kortirion among the Trees’ 107-10, 115, 117, 119-20, 131, 186, 187, 222, 260, 279, 280
‘The Lay of the Children of Húrin’ (Túrin saga in verse) 278, 279
‘The Lay of Leithian’ (Tinúviel story in verse) 279, 282
‘Lo! young we are’ 65
‘The Lonely Isle’ xi, 144-5, 173-4, 186
‘Looney’/‘The Sea-bell’ 296-7
‘Sea Chant of an Elder Day’ see ‘The Tides’
‘The Shores of Faëry’ 83-5, 86, 120
‘A Song of Aryador’ 95-6, 98-100, 259, 277
‘The Song of Eriol’ 243-5
‘The Tides’/‘Sea Chant of an Elder
Day’/‘The Horns of Ulmo’ 59-60, 64, 237-8
‘Tinfang Warble’ 74-5, 77
‘The Town of Dreams and the City of Present Sorrow’ see ‘The Wanderer’s Allegiance’
The Trumpets of Faërie (unpublished volume) 76, 119, 134, 231
‘The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star’ 45-7, 52-3, 64, 92, 309
‘The Wanderer’s Allegiance’/‘The Town of Dreams and the City of Present Sorrow’ 130-3, 206-7, 216, 217, 243
down too soon’ 65-7, 70, 120
‘Wood-sunshine’ 14, 36, 70, 75, 76
‘You and Me and the Cottage of Lost
Play’ 72-3, 80, 86, 131, 226fn.
stories:
‘The Book of Lost Tales’ see especially 214, 229-30, 254, 277-80; also 91, 100fn., 226, 228 and fn., 241fn., 254, 270, 272, 288, 291, 292, 293, 297, 300, 303, 306, 310
‘The Cottage of Lost Play’ 224, 225-9, 282, 297
‘The Fall of Gondolin’ 38, 214-23, 224, 231, 240, 249, 260, 267, 282, 294, 308, 312
The Hobbit 13, 64, 78, 264, 267, 282-3, 301, 306-8
‘Leaf by Niggle’ 278-9
The Lord of the Rings 9, 13, 39, 53, 64, 80, 81, 91, 96, 97, 108, 113, 206, 228, 261, 272, 290, 295, 301, 306-7, 309-13
‘The Music of the Ainur’ 254-6, 301, 304, 306
‘The Notion Club Papers’ (unfinished) 44
The ‘Silmarillion’ see especially 280; also 39, 53, 186, 213, 262fn., 282, 295, 298, 301, 306-7
‘sketch’ of the mythology 279-80
The Story of Kullervo 26, 50, 59, 231
‘The Tale of the Nauglafring’ 271-4
‘The Tale of Tinúviel’ 240, 261, 262-3, 268, 270
‘The Tale of Turambar’ 240-1, 266-70, 275, 304
Tolkien, Mabel (née Suffield; JRRT’s mother) 11, 12, 13, 14, 48
Tolkien, Michael (JRRT’s son) xii, 282; J. R. R. Tolkien to 242
Tolkien, Priscilla (JRRT’s daughter) 282, 284
Tol Withernon (in the Lonely Isle) 236
Torhthelm 43
Trent, River, Staffordshire 134, 207
Trought, Vincent (TCBS member) 5, 6, 18, 19fn., 28-9
The Trumpets of Faërie, see under Tolkien, J.R.R., poetry
Tuatha Dé Danann 100, 222
Tulkas (champion of the Valar) 241, 256, 257 and fn.
Tuor (man of Aryador) 214, 215-17, 238, 245, 276, 305
Turambar 127; see also Túrin Turambar
Turgon (Gnome, king of Gondolin) 214, 216
Túrin Turambar (man of Aryador) 266, 267, 268-70, 279, 299
Twilit Isles (in the western ocean) 90, 91, 127
Two Trees (of Valinor) 81, 83, 84, 126, 241, 258, 259, 264, 273
U-boats 233
Ui (mermaid queen) 125
Uin (primeval whale) 259
Ulmo (Vala of the deeps) 215, 216, 217, 222, 237, 238, 241, 254, 256, 259
Ungwë-Tuita 127; see also Spider of Night, Gloomweaver
Uolë-mi-Kúmë (the Moon King) 127; see also ‘Why the Man in the Moon came down too soon’ under Tolkien, J.R.R., poetry
Ur (the Sun) 126
Úrin (father of Túrin) 266, 268, 269
Utumna (lower regions of darkness) 127
Vadencourt, France
Väinamöinen 51, 60
Vairë (Elf of the Cottage of Lost Play) 225, 226, 227
Valar (‘gods’ or angels on Earth, sg. Vala) 86, 99, 112-13, 125, 126, 128, 216, 236, 241, 256, 257-8, 259, 260, 270, 275
Valhalla 257
Valinor (land of the Valar) 65, 83, 84, 86, 96, 99, 112, 113, 126, 217, 226, 227, 228, 241, 257, 258, 259, 260
Valkyries 257
Vana (a Vala) 241
Varda (queen of the Valar) 241; see also Súlimi
Verdun, battle and siege of (1916) 129, 141, 142, 147, 191
Victorians 21, 42, 76, 77, 80, 105, 208, 217, 275, 288, 298
Vimy Ridge, France 144, 150
Volsunga Saga 16, 35, 63, 267
Völund 86, 87
Vonnegut, Kurt 300
Voronwë
(1) wife of Eärendel 127, 128
(2) Gnome, friend of Tuor 216
Wade 86-7
‘lost Tale of Wade’ 229
Wade-Gery, Henry Theodore (Oxford don and 19th LF officer) 64-5, 67, 68, 103, 185, 290
Waite, Wilfrid Fabian (11th LF subaltern) 171
Waldman, Milton: JRRT to 229-30, 261
The Wanderer (Old English poem) 47, 244, 305
Warlincourt, France 211
Warloy-Baillon, France 150, 152, 157
Warwick 33, 64, 83, 93, 104, 107-8, 110, 126, 128, 130-3, 134, 216, 225, 243
Warwickshires see Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Waters of Awakening 241, 259
Wayland 86
Wells, H. G. 93, 221
Welsh language 14, 32, 35, 82, 213, 236
West Midlands 51-2, 260
West Bromwich, Staffordshire 111, 186
Westbury, Wiltshire 102
Whatley, Captain (Oxford University OTC) 83
Whitby, Yorkshire 12
Whittington Heath Camp, Staffordshire 93-6, 107, 294
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 22, 56, 129, 300
Williamson, Henry: Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight 301
Willows, Land or Vale of 241, 259, 238, 241
Wingelot/Wingilot/Vingelot 84, 86, 97, 127
Winter, Jay: Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning 289
Wirilómë 258; see also Gloomweaver, Spider of Night
Wiseman, Christine Irene (née Savage; CLW’s first wife) 283
Wiseman, Christopher Luke (TCBS member) xii, 4, 5, 302
at Cambridge 4, 31, 32
and Gilson 47-8, 54, 104-6, 146, 174, 176, 183, 184-5
at King Edward’s School 4-6, 18, 19, 27
naval war service 87, 115-16, 141-3
post-war career 254
sobriquets 18, 19 and fn. and Smith 31-2, 54, 104-6, 208, 209, 212, 232-3, 253, 279
and the TCBS 6, 14, 55, 56, 58, 63, 101-2, 104-6, 175, 176-7, 183-5, 208, 251, 253, 304, 305
and Tolkien 4-5, 16-17, 19, 33, 55, 123, 124, 206, 207, 231, 232-3, 240, 250-1, 281, 283-4
and Tolkien’s writing 69-70, 119-20, 121-2, 123-4, 132-3, 208, 224, 240, 243, 280-1, 288, 296
and Tulkas 257fn.
Wiseman, Elsie (née Daniel; CLW’s mother) 4, 251
Wiseman, Reverend Frederick Luke (CLW’s father) 4, 47
Wiseman, Patricia Joan (née Wragge; CLW’s second wife) 283
Withernsea, Holderness 234, 235, 236
Wood, Susan (Patricia Wiseman’s daughter) 283
Wright, Andrew (Cambridgeshires) 156, 170
Wright, Joseph 30, 37, 42
English Dialect Dictionary 30
Primer of the Gothic Language 16
Yavanna (a Vala) 241
Yeats, W. B. 7, 93
Yelin (Winter) 222
Yelur (Melko) 222
Ylmir (Ulmo) 237, 238
Ypres 199, 247, 287
battles of 50, 239, 250 and fn.
Yser, River, Belgium 50
Zollern Redoubt, France 195