Tolkien and The Hobbit vs. the Nazis

J.R.R. Tolkien's stand against the Nazi regime

The bloodiest battle of World War I: the Battle of the Somme. On one side, an alliance between the Third Republic of France and the British Empire featured J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and A.A. Milne (author of Winnie the Pooh), young soldiers seeing their first major conflict.

That’s not a “fun fact”; it’s a brutal reality that war is never fought betwe…