Tolkien and the Great War (51 page)

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 117
fn
.

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' 192
fn
. 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, 258
fn
., 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, 257
fn
.;
see also
Lirillo

No Man's Land 147, 155, 248

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 117
fn
., 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) 250
fn
.

Payton, Ralph Stuart (‘the Baby'; TCBS member) 19
fn
., 27, 31, 57, 68, 110, 182, 250

Payton, Wilfrid Hugh (‘Whiffy'; TCBS member) 18, 19
fn
., 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, 228
fn
., 247, 255

Ramandor 125;
see also
Makar

Ranon (JRRT) 207
fn
.

‘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, 176
fn
.

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, 182
fn
.

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, 81
fn
., 217, 261-2, 275, 298

Shaw, George Bernard 7, 105

Sheaf 34

Shippey, Thomas A. 66, 81
fn
., 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, 226
fn
. 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 17
fn
., 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