![]() Tolkien is remembered today as a student of Anglo-Saxon poetry and a lover of mythology. Just like England formed an alliance with France and Russia, and Germany with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so too did the dwarves for an uneasy alliance with the elves to fight off the orcs. Some scholars have suggested that his experiences in the war helped to inspire The Battle of the Five Armies at the end of the novel. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit after serving in the First World War.
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