Tolkien and the Great War (50 page)

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 218
fn.

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, 19
fn
., 22-3, 30, 56, 57, 156, 169, 179, 182, 183, 218

Gilson, Robert Quilter (TCBS member) xii, 6, 7-8, 19
fn
., 27

at Cambridge 7, 50, 54, 56

‘Carellus Helveticulus' 19
fn
.

character and personality 6-7, 21, 55-6, 57, 102, 116, 122, 124, 146-7, 253

death and grave 8, 156, 169-70, 193
fn
.

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 17
fn
., 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) 218
fn
. 387

Glamhoth (goblins) 218
fn
.;
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, 218
fn
., 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
20
fn
., 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) 250
fn
.

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

humans
see
Men

Humber Garrison 234, 238, 245, 248;
see also
Lancashire Fusiliers, 3rd,
and
Royal Defence Corps, 9th

Huxley, Aldous: ‘Glastonbury' 67
fn.

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 19
fn
., 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, 207
fn
., 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') 64
fn
., 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) 128
fn
. 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