By Martha Cornog   A professor at Oxford University specializing in Anglo-Saxon languages and philology, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is now famed for The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) trilogy and its prequel, The Hobbit. Tolkien – Lighting Up the Darkness, a graphic biography by a European team of creators, tells how such a staid-sounding academic came to write the most beloved epic fantasy of the last century, focusing partly on Tolkien’s military service in the Great War (aka World War I) that lasted from 1914 to 1918. As it turned out, Tolkien’s own particular experience of “post-traumatic stress disorder”… Read More