#and obviously it impacted him heavily enough to write a whole trilogy of anti-war books
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Ok I know we all like to joke about how the Battle of the Five Armies is only a page long in The Hobbit but like. Sometimes I think about how what if Tolkien wrote it that way because he didn’t want his kids to hear about war.
#like the hobbit was supposed to be a bedtime story for his kids#and Tolkien fought in an actual war like he was on the front lines#and obviously it impacted him heavily enough to write a whole trilogy of anti-war books#but this was a story originally meant for his children to hear#so what if he left out the battle of the five armies because he didn’t want his kids to hear about it#but still left in the sad aftermath because he at the very least wanted them to know how destructive war is#I dunno I could be wrong#but sometimes I think about that#the hobbit#lord of the rings#jrr tolkien#j r r tolkien#the silmarillion#tolkien legendarium#tolkien
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