TOLKIEN LIGHTING UP THE DARKNESS GN

For fans of The Hobbit & Lord of The Rings looking to learn more about the genius behind their favorite epics. JRR Tolkien was not always the old Oxford professor pipe in the mouth¸ refining his extraordinary work. In 1915¸ at age 23¸ he leaves for the front with his high school friends¸ whom he loves like brothers. They take part in the Battle of the Somme¸ which ultimately kills 450¸000 people. The horror of war will brand his relationships to friendship¸ love¸ and creation. This graphic novel explores the youth of the author of The Lord of the Rings and his traumatic experience of the battlefields of the First World War¸ which will forge the imagination of his literary work.