Tolkien and the Great War (52 page)

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, 213
fn
., 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 117
fn
., 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, 207
fn
., 236, 278

Tol Erethrin 207
fn
., 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 128
fn
.

and children's births 239-40, 242, 282

death 283

engagement and marriage 12, 26, 29, 30, 33, 43, 134-5, 207
fn
.

and Erinti 128, 228
fn
.

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
., 257
fn
.

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, 207
fn
.;
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
., 257
fn
.

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 17
fn
., 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, 256
ff
, 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, 81
fn
., 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

‘Why the Man in the Moon came

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, 226
fn
.

stories:

‘The Book of Lost Tales'
see especially
214, 229-30, 254, 277-80;
also
91, 100
fn.
, 226, 228
and fn.
, 241
fn
., 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, 262
fn
., 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, 19
fn
., 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

Vingelot
see
Wingelot

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