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Give them to me!

It's impossible to understand The Lord of the Rings without understanding the concept of survivor's guilt.

Before the war, Tolkien and his three closest friends formed a society, the T.C.B.S., dedicated to art and changing the world. Two were killed at the Somme. The third died shortly after. Tolkien alone was left to carry the weight of their shared dreams.

On this show today:

Like smoke that vanishes on the morning breeze

Are passed the first beginnings of the world,

When time was even as a bud still curled,

And scarce the limit set of lands and seas;