==Tolkien’s Friends From “Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth” John Garth HMH, Jun 11, 2013 ->As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded friends who had wide-ranging conversations in their Tea Club and Barrovian Society. After finishing his degree, Tolkien experienced the horrors of the Great War as a...