Christina Scull - The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Volume 1 - Chronology

He has written out a pencil copy of Kortirion among the Trees ; he first intends to send it to the T.C.B.S. as he owes them all letters, then decides that he will send it to Edith and make another copy for the T.C.B.S.

28 November–4 December 1915Tolkien writes a poem, The Pool of the Dead Year (and the Passing of Autumn) .

December 1915Tolkien moves with the 13th Battalion to Brocton Camp on Cannock Chase.

1 December 1915Tolkien’s poem Goblin Feet is published in Oxford Poetry 1915 . The volume also includes ‘Songs on the Downs’ by G.B. Smith and three poems by H.T. Wade-Gery.

2 December 1915Smith, now in the trenches in France, writes to Tolkien in care of the 13th Lancashire Fusiliers, 3rd Reserve Brigade, Officers Company, Brocton Camp. He asks for the long letter Tolkien promised in his last postcard that he would send.

20 December 1915–9 January 1916British and allied troops evacuate Gallipoli.

22 December 1915Smith writes to Tolkien, thanking him for various letters and commenting on Oxford Poetry 1915 and Goblin Feet . Smith and Wade-Gery agree that they and Tolkien are the best contributors to the volume.

26 December 1915Gilson writes to Tolkien in care of the 3rd Reserve Brigade, Officers Company, P Lines, Brocton Camp. Tolkien has written to him about some problems, as Gilson remarks on ‘the extra blackness of your fate in these dark days’ (Tolkien Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford). He has just forwarded Kortirion among the Trees to Wiseman, and has made a copy for Smith. He likes the poem very much though he makes one or two criticisms.

30 December 1915Wiseman writes to Tolkien at Brocton Camp. He has been posted to the HMS Superb . He has received Kortirion among the Trees from Gilson, and will write about it later.

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